Lower Aspen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1965. Farmhouse.

Lower Aspen Farmhouse

WRENN ID
weathered-rood-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hyndburn
Constituency
Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1965
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Aspen Farmhouse, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
OS grid reference
SD 735 284
Coordinates
53.75188, -2.40281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Aspen Farmhouse is a farmhouse, probably from the late 17th century, now functioning as a house. It is constructed of watershot coursed sandstone with quoins and features a stone slate roof, which has two brick chimneys on the left gable and a stone chimney on the right gable. The building has a single bay plan, with an outshut that makes it double-pile.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall with an attic. There is a doorway on the left side, and a six-light stone mullion window with a hoodmould at the ground floor. The first floor has similar double-chamfered windows of two and four lights, all with hoodmoulds. The right return wall features similar windows in the outshut, including three lights at the ground floor (one light blocked and lacking mullions) and two lights above. The left return wall has one two-light double-chamfered mullion window on each floor, along with an altered ground floor window, all with hoodmoulds, and three small blocked openings. At the rear, there is a lean-to sunk dairy with a two-light double-chamfered stone mullion window.

Inside, the farmhouse has a large cambered inglenook bressummer that supports two beams with cyma-stopped chamfers. The ceiling joists are similarly decorated, and there is a timber heck post and stone stairs.

Local climate

Lower Aspen Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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