Hen Heads Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Farmhouse.

Hen Heads Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stubborn-tracery-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rossendale
Constituency
Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hen Heads Farmhouse, Kings Highway
OS grid reference
SD 789 268
Coordinates
53.73744, -2.32047
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hen Heads Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse built from watershot coursed sandstone with quoins and a stone slate roof. It features two chimneys, one on the ridge and another at the left gable, which is adjacent to a barn that extends to the left. The farmhouse has a two-bay plan and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical design. In the centre, there is a wide lean-to single-storey porch with a door on the left side and a modern window inserted in the front wall. Each floor has two 2-light flush mullion windows; the lower windows have vertical rectangular lights, while the upper ones have shorter lights. Above the porch, there is a small rectangular window. To the left of the farmhouse, there is a segmental-headed wagon entrance leading to the added barn, with a square loading door above it and a later outshut to the left. The right return wall has one window at ground floor level, and the rear of the building features two windows on each floor.

Local climate

Hen Heads Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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