Old Holme Farmhouse and Hudson Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. A C18 Farmhouse, cottage.
Old Holme Farmhouse and Hudson Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-trefoil-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Old Holme Farmhouse and Hudson Cottage, Main Street, Howsham
- OS grid reference
- SE 736 629
- Coordinates
- 54.05738, -0.87636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Holme Farmhouse and Hudson Cottage is a house and adjoining cottage dating from the mid to late 18th century, with 19th-century alterations. The front is faced with hammer-dressed sandstone, while the sides are constructed of brick in English bond, topped with a plain tile roof. The cottage is entered from the left, while the house has a central entrance. The building is two stories high and features five first-floor windows.
On the left side, there is a four-fielded-panel door with two 16-pane sash windows to its left. To the right, a six-panel door is flanked by 16-pane sashes, all set beneath wedge lintels. On the first floor, there is a blocked window, flanked by a 16-pane sash and a two-light Yorkshire sash on the left, and a sash with glazing bars flanked by 16-pane sashes on the right.
Inside, the kitchen fireplace has a bressumer, and there is a closed-string staircase with a column-on-vase design leading to Holme Farmhouse. Notably, Hudson Cottage was the birthplace of George Hudson, known as "The Railway King," who lived from 1800 to 1871.
Local climate
Old Holme Farmhouse and Hudson Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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