Higher Fairbanks Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Farmhouse, barn.
Higher Fairbanks Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- stranded-roof-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Higher Fairbanks Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Goodshaw Fold Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 802 262
- Coordinates
- 53.73197, -2.3003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Fairbanks Farmhouse and attached barn is a late 18th-century laithehouse located in Goodshaw Fold, Rawtenstall. The building is constructed from whitewashed watershot coursed sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof with chimneys positioned at the left gable, on the ridge, and at the junction.
The farmhouse is a single-depth, two-bay structure that stands two storeys high. It has a low gabled porch with an altered doorway and two flush mullion windows on each floor: three lights on the left and two lights on the right, mostly fitted with 4-pane glazing. The barn, which extends to the right of the farmhouse, includes a large segmental-headed wagon arch, a very small square window located under the eaves above, and a plain doorway at the right-hand end. This property is noted as a good example of a humble type of building.
Local climate
Higher Fairbanks Farmhouse and Attached Barn 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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