Layton House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Layton House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hushed-gateway-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1969
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Layton House Farmhouse, 52, High Row, Melsonby, DL10 5NR
OS grid reference
NZ 196 085
Coordinates
54.47177, -1.69799
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Layton House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1698, with 19th-century additions and later alterations. It is built of rubble and has a 20th-century pantile roof with artificial stone slates at the eaves. The building is one and two storeys high, featuring a T-plan layout with single-storey outshuts at the angles.

The main house, located to the right, has a plinth and quoins. In the second bay, there is a board door set in a chamfered quoined surround, with an inscription "H M A 1698" on the lintel, and above it, a sundial with painted characters reading "1646 RN." The ground-floor windows include a 6-pane sash window with a projecting sill and deep lintel on the left, and three side-sliding sashes to the right, with the first having a flush surround and the third in a surround that formerly had a flat-faced mullion. On the first floor, there are side-sliding sashes, with the first and third in surrounds of flat-faced mullion windows, and the fourth in a flush surround.

The left side features a raised verge, while the right has a shaped kneeler and ashlar coping. There is a large brick stack at the left end, with additional brick stacks between the second and third bays and at the right end. To the left, there is a 19th-century single-storey range, which has quoins to the left, a side-sliding sash window with a deep lintel, ashlar coping, and a brick stack at the left end.

Inside, to the right of the door, there are old reused beams and joists. At the far right, there is a triangular-headed chamfered ashlar fireplace with elaborately-shaped chamfer stops.

Local climate

Layton House Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • 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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