Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. Farmhouse.
Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-frieze-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse, Sandy Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 784 278
- Coordinates
- 53.74637, -2.32806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Hey Cottage and Higher Hey Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1688 that has been extended and is now divided into two dwellings. It features rendered rubble with exposed quoins and a stone slate roof, which has two chimneys on the ridge and one on the right gable. The building has a cruciform plan that has been modified, with a two-bay baffle-entry, a front porch, and a rear stair turret with an outshut. A third bay has been added at the left end, continuing the outshut.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a prominent two-storey gabled porch with a Tudor-arched doorway. Above the doorway is a datestone inscribed in relief with the initials NH AH (WH = William Halstead) HH EH W H 1688. The front windows have been altered, but there is still one stone mullion window on the first floor to the left of the porch. The rear of the building features a gabled stair turret, a first-floor window with a stone mullion to the left of the turret, and a continuous outshut to the right that includes a very small oblong window under the eaves; otherwise, the openings have been altered. Inside, the farmhouse has beams set on edge and a carved salt cupboard.
Local climate
Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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