Whitebirk Moss Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1965. Farmhouse.
Whitebirk Moss Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-postern-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1965
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whitebirk Moss Farmhouse, Blackburn Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 709 291
- Coordinates
- 53.75793, -2.44189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitebirk Moss Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and a stone slate roof featuring gable copings and kneelers. The building has one chimney on the ridge and two gable chimneys that project from the left gable. It is a three-bay, baffle-entry, two-storey house with a two-storey gabled porch located at the junction of the second and third bays, along with a two-storey rear outshut attached to the let and second bays.
The porch includes a studded door with a chamfered surround, and on the first floor, there is a stepped three-light double chamfered mullion window with a stepped hoodmould. The porch also features hollow moulded coping and roll-moulded kneelers. There are three additional mullion windows on each floor: the ground floor windows are double-chamfered with hoodmoulds and contain four, five, and three lights (originally four), while the first-floor windows are chamfered with four, four, and three lights.
The left return wall, which has a projecting chimney stack, is rendered and includes a door and a three-light mullion window on the first floor. The rear of the farmhouse features a small three-light stone mullion window on the first floor of the outshut, a firewindow at the junction of the second and third bays, and five other windows, with the third bay altered for use as a dairy.
Inside, there is a large stone arch fireplace in the second bay and some large roll-moulded beams.
Local climate
Whitebirk Moss 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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