Higher Oakenbank is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Farmhouse.
Higher Oakenbank
- WRENN ID
- gilded-lead-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Oakenbank, Trawden Forest
- OS grid reference
- SD 914 371
- Coordinates
- 53.83097, -2.13113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Oakenbank is a small farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, likely rebuilt and extended in the late 18th century. It is currently undergoing renovation as of 1988. The building is constructed from coursed rubble gritstone and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys, with a single-cell width and two deep, and an addition that is set forward on the left side. There are rear outshuts to both parts of the building.
The original house displays large quoins and has a small, chamfered fire-window on the left, although the mullion has been removed. To the right, there is a larger two-light mullioned window with an inserted opening on its right. The first floor has walling that is more deeply coursed and features a six-light, square-fenced mullioned window with a king mullion. There is a stone end stack on the left side.
The addition on the left has a door to the right of a two-light, square-faced mullioned window, with square hatches above and no roof covering. The right return of the original house has a small chamfered window on the left and the upper floor is made of more deeply coursed stone, featuring both two-light and one-light windows.
The interior has not been inspected, but the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments notes a late 18th-century fireplace and a doorway leading to the rear with a stopped chamfer. The housebody contains beams and joists with stopped chamfers, and there is a king-post truss with raking struts.
Local climate
Higher Oakenbank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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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