Melonsby Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Farmhouse.

Melonsby Farmhouse

WRENN ID
shifting-corridor-coral
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
Melonsby Farmhouse, Melsonsby Farmhouse, 53, West Road, Melsonby
OS grid reference
NZ 196 085
Coordinates
54.47163, -1.69861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Melonsby Farmhouse, marked on the Ordnance Survey Map as Melsonby Farm, is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, now used as a house. It is built of coursed sandstone with a pantile roof, featuring stone slates at the eaves. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a rear outshut. Notable architectural features include quoins, a central four-panel door with a narrow overlight, and an architrave that has bases, a pulvinated frieze, and a pediment. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, set within architraves. The farmhouse also has a cyma recta cornice, shaped kneelers, and ashlar coping, along with brick stacks at the ends.

Local climate

Melonsby 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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