Lower Friar Hill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Friar Hill Farm
- WRENN ID
- little-iron-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Friar Hill Farm, BB5 3SL
- OS grid reference
- SD 766 259
- Coordinates
- 53.72985, -2.3549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Friar Hill Farm is a farmhouse, dated 1744, with a later addition, and now used as a house. It is constructed of watershot coursed sandstone, now waterproofed, with a stone slate roof. The roof has one chimney at the left gable and another where the roof ridges meet. The original two-bay farmhouse was extended to the right to create a loomshop, all under the same roofline.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and symmetrical. A gabled, single-storey porch projects from the front, and a moulded datestone is set in the wall above the porch, inscribed with "1 T" and below it, a projecting stone slab bearing the date 1744. There are two windows on each floor, each being a three-light casement, with one window altered. An outshut, or lean-to addition, extends from the rear of the first bay. The loomshop to the right has a mullioned window with four square lights, although a fifth is visible from inside and blocked. Above this are two square windows, with two blocked lights in between.
Local climate
Lower Friar Hill Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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