Higher Land House and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1989. House, barn. 5 related planning applications.
Higher Land House and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- salt-garret-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1989
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Higher Land House and Attached Barn, West Street, Gargrave
- OS grid reference
- SD 930 544
- Coordinates
- 53.98584, -2.1072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Land House and the attached barn date from the late 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, featuring quoins. There is a central doorway with large stones at the joints. The windows have recessed square mullions; the left bay has three lights in each window, while the other bays have two lights. The barn, which is an addition but not significantly younger than the house, has a segmental cart entry made of rubble.
Local climate
Higher Land House and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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