Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Farmhouse.
Rectory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-cobalt-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rectory Farmhouse, Pinfold Lane, Kirk Smeaton
- OS grid reference
- SE 518 165
- Coordinates
- 53.6429, -1.21746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 17th century, with later additions and alterations, including a 19th-century raising of the roof pitch. It is constructed from magnesian limestone and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with an additional range at the rear.
The original entrance, located at the right gable end, is now blocked and has a chamfered surround with a shallow-arched heavy lintel. A central entrance has been inserted into what was previously a window opening; this features a plank door with an overlight, all under a weathered cavetto-moulded hood. The farmhouse has 3-light casement windows throughout, except for a single-light window above the door. The ground floor windows are set under cavetto-moulded hoods, all within 17th-century double-chamfered surrounds. The left window on the first floor retains only the remains of its double-chamfered surround.
The end stacks project, with the right stack having a chamfered plinth. The right return of the building includes a ground-floor 2-light mullion and transom window within a weathered double-chamfered surround under a hoodmould, and a first-floor 2-light mullion window within a double-chamfered surround. There are remains of similar windows at the rear, which are now partly obscured by later constructions.
Local climate
Rectory Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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