Windy Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1965. Farmhouse.

Windy Bank Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hollow-turret-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hyndburn
Constituency
Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1965
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Windy Bank Farmhouse, Blackburn Old Road
OS grid reference
SD 705 310
Coordinates
53.77468, -2.44855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windy Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 17th century and has undergone alterations, resulting in its current dilapidated state. The building is constructed of rubble faced with sandstone blocks, arranged in courses, and features quoins. It has a stone slate roof with gable copings, although some are missing, and there are chimneys that are now missing at the left gable and on the ridge at the junction of the second and third bays.

The farmhouse has a three-bay baffle-entry plan, with the third bay projecting. There is a later outshut at the rear of the first and second bays. The structure is two storeys high. At the junction of the second and third bays, there is a two-storey porch with a lean-to roof that extends slightly above the eaves level. The ground floor of the porch has a part-blocked doorway with a shouldered lintel, while the first floor features a small chamfered window that lacks its mullion.

To the left, at the junction of the first and second bays, there is a later single-storey porch that was once gabled but is now dilapidated. This porch is flanked by formerly-mullioned four-light windows, with the window on the right partly incorporated into a doorway. On the first floor, there is a square window and a two-light window with a flush mullion.

To the right, the front wall has collapsed, and the third bay is gutted. However, it retains a chamfered rectangular fireplace on the first floor, two-tiered doorways at the rear of the cross wall, and a small blocked three-light window with wooden diamond mullions on the first floor. The rear wall of the first bay has altered windows with very large jambs.

Local climate

Windy Bank 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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