Higher Stony Bank Farmhouse and Former Granary Adjoining to the West is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. House.
Higher Stony Bank Farmhouse and Former Granary Adjoining to the West
- WRENN ID
- open-basalt-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1954
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 744 538
- Coordinates
- 53.9799, -2.39059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Stony Bank Farmhouse and the former granary adjoining to the west date from the late 17th century. The farmhouse is constructed of rendered rubble with sandstone dressings and features a stone slate roof. It is two storeys tall, with a central porch that has a roof sloping down to one and a half storeys at the front. The windows are designed with an outer chamfer and an inner cyma moulding. Flanking the porch are two six-light windows with mullions and transoms, each topped with a hood that has decorative stops. On the first floor, there are two two-light mullioned windows on either side of the porch, along with a circular window with a chamfered surround on the far left. The first floor of the porch extends over a cyma-moulded string course and features a one-light window with an ovolo-moulded surround and an ogee head. The door has a cyma-moulded surround with a shaped head and hood.
To the left of the farmhouse is an agricultural building, believed to have been a granary on the first floor. This building has doors with plain reveals on both floors, with the ground-floor door located beneath the upper platform of external stone steps. The right gable of the farmhouse includes a one-light window with a cyma-moulded surround, and a four-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window on the first floor. There is an outshut at the rear that contains the staircase. Inside the left-hand room of the farmhouse, there is a wide fireplace that has been filled in, featuring a chamfered surround and a segmental head with an outer chamfer around the voussoirs. Inside the granary, the left-hand wall of the house has a blocked one-light ovolo-moulded window surround on the first floor, indicating that the granary may have been added later.
Local climate
Higher Stony Bank Farmhouse and Former Granary Adjoining to the West 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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