Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1968. Farmhouse.

Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse

WRENN ID
south-steeple-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse, Whalley Road, Simonstone
OS grid reference
SD 775 341
Coordinates
53.8035, -2.34203
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Top o'th' Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, which has been altered and extended. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with quoins, although the south and west sides are rendered and the north side is whitewashed. The roof is made of stone slate, and there are external chimney stacks on the north side and the west gable walls. The building consists of two units, not including the extension, and is two storeys high.

On the north side, there is an inserted doorway to the right of the chimney stack. To the right of the door, on each floor, there is a recessed 3-light window with a hoodmould; the upper window features ovolo and fillet moulded mullions, while the lower window has been converted to a casement. The left gable wall has a similar 4-light mullioned window on each floor. On the right side, there is a large chimney stack with offsets, and at the first floor, to the left of this stack, there is a round-headed light and to the right, a 2-light mullioned window. The rear of the farmhouse is largely obscured by a large 19th-century extension, which is of little architectural interest.

Inside, the farmhouse has been altered but still contains three large beams with cyma-stopped chamfers, one of which has a stone corbel. At the first floor, the end of a large cambered tie-beam on a stone corbel is visible.

Local climate

Top O'Th' Bank 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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