Cracoe (Or Cracow) Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. House.

Cracoe (Or Cracow) Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
empty-lead-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1954
Type
House
Address
Cracoe (Or Cracow) Hill Farmhouse, Gisburn Forest
OS grid reference
SD 772 546
Coordinates
53.98704, -2.34813
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cracoe (or Cracow) Hill Farmhouse is a house built in 1691 that has been altered over time. It is constructed from slobbered rubble and has a stone slate roof. The farmhouse features a three-cell plan and stands two storeys tall. The original windows have double-chamfered surrounds. To the left of the door, there is a window with the remains of original jambs and a hood with one spiral stop. To the right, there is a similar window with an ovolo-moulded hood. At the far right, an original window retains one mullion and has an ovolo-moulded hood. On the first floor, there are four windows; the inner ones have plain reveals, while the outer ones show the remains of original surrounds. The door itself has a chamfered surround and a shaped lintel inscribed with "WMC IAL 1691". To the left of the door, there is a second, blocked doorway. The farmhouse has chimneys on the gables and aligned with the door. The left-hand return wall features a blocked one-light window with a hood and spiral stops. At the rear on the first floor, there is a chamfered one-light window with a segmental head. Inside, the central room has a deep chimney breast with a modern fireplace, aligned with the front door. The chamfered axial main ceiling joists are scarfed in front of the chimney breast, indicating that a firehood bressumer may have been removed.

Local climate

Cracoe (Or Cracow) Hill Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% 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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