Bell Sykes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
Bell Sykes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-hinge-gold
- 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
- Bell Sykes Farmhouse, Slaidburn
- OS grid reference
- SD 720 527
- Coordinates
- 53.97027, -2.4283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Sykes Farmhouse is a house dated 1787, as indicated by a plaque on the first floor. It is constructed of squared coursed sandstone and features a slate roof. The building has a double-pile central-entry plan with end stacks and stands two storeys tall with two bays. The windows are tripartite, surrounded by plain stone with square mullions, and the central lights are sashed. The front door is made of raised and fielded panels, framed by a plain stone surround and an open timber porch. The eaves project at the gables, showcasing shaped purlin ends. At the rear, to the left, there is a tall window with a plain stone surround and two transoms of square section. Beneath the lower window, the word 'DAIRY' can be seen through the current paintwork, likely originally inscribed to qualify for exemption from window tax.
Local climate
Bell Sykes 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 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings