Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-rood-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, A170, Middleton
- OS grid reference
- SE 782 854
- Coordinates
- 54.25885, -0.80029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building that consists of two attached houses, which have been converted into a barn. The structure dates from the early 17th century and the later 17th century, with further alterations and remodelling occurring in the 19th century. It is constructed of squared sandstone, partly resting on a chamfered plinth, and features a pantile roof with brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and has four windows.
At the centre of the façade, there are remains of a porch that projects outwards, which contains a plank door. To the left of the porch is a door with four recessed panels and an overlight, set beneath a timber lintel. There are inserted windows flanking the door on both floors, including a 16-pane sash window in the left opening on the ground floor. Beyond the right opening on the ground floor, there is a chamfered lintel that may have once been a fire window. The openings to the right of the porch are also later additions.
On the ground floor, there is a stable door and one leaf of a double board door, both featuring timber lintels, along with vent slits. The first floor has a lifting door to the left and a square pitching window to the right. The rear of the building is likely the original front, displaying a two-storey, two-window layout, with a later two-storey, two-window section to the right. The original doorway at the centre has been blocked and replaced with a fixed light. To the left of the doorway, there are flat-mullioned windows, one of which has been lowered and contains an incomplete three-light casement, while the centre window has been altered to form a doorway. The left end features four-light windows on both floors that are blocked but unaltered. The first-floor opening to the right has an inserted horizontal-sliding sash with a timber lintel, and there is an inserted window on the ground floor to the right. The first-floor window to the left has three large-pane lights set in a double-chamfered surround beneath a flat drip mould.
Internally, against the right gable wall, there are remains of a full-height stone firehood with a small, deeply splayed opening to the left. The right-hand room of the later house contains a wide fireplace with a chamfered segmental arch supported by chamfered bar-stopped jambs. The interior also features a chamfered spine beam and square-section joists.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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