Dike House 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. 1 related planning application.
Dike House Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-bailey-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dike House Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Burnley Road, OL13 8RQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 864 243
- Coordinates
- 53.71583, -2.20608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dike House Farmhouse, dated 1720, stands with an attached barn. The farmhouse is now derelict. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof, featuring gable chimneys and gable copings with kneelers. The building follows a double pile, two-bay plan and rises to two storeys. A single-storey gabled porch projects at the right end, covering the junction with the barn, and has a plain doorway offset to the left. The porch gable displays a datestone within a recessed, shouldered panel containing carved decoration and lettering: a crudely carved radiant sun at the top, a flower beneath this, flanked by the letters "I" and "L" and the date "1720" below. All window openings are presently boarded or blocked. The porch has a single rectangular window. The ground floor has two horizontal rectangular windows and an inserted doorway at the left end. The first floor has four square windows, most with flat brick heads. The rear wall has several similar blocked windows, one first-floor window featuring a chamfered mullion. A sunk dairy is built into the slope behind the first bay. The barn, attached at the right end, has a sliding door at the front and a large rear lean-to.
Local climate
Dike House Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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
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