Clay House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Clay House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
half-casement-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1984
Type
House
Address
Clay House Farmhouse, Pendle Road, Downham, BB7 4DN
OS grid reference
SD 794 437
Coordinates
53.88933, -2.31394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clay House Farmhouse is a house from the mid-19th century, built of sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. It has a double-pile plan with a central entrance and gable chimneys. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The windows are designed in a 17th-century style, featuring mullions, an inner hollow chamfer, an outer chamfer, and hoods. On the south wall, there are four lights in the left window and three lights in the right window. The door has a plain stone surround and is located under a gabled shallow stone porch. Shaped stone gutter brackets are present. The rear wall displays similar window and door details, with the left-hand bay having three-light windows and the right-hand bay featuring four-light windows positioned at a higher level. This farmhouse is noted as a good example of the revived vernacular style used by the Downham Hall Estate.

Local climate

Clay House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 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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