Lower Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Farmhouse.

Lower Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fallow-parapet-equinox
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
Lower Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse, Tunstead Lane
OS grid reference
SD 857 225
Coordinates
53.6992, -2.21772
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Top o'th' Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse built mainly in the late 18th century, but it incorporates datestones from 1681 and 1682 in its rear wall. The building now serves as a house and has an attached barn on the right side. The house is composed of three bays and two storeys, while the barn, which continues to the right, also has three bays. The front wall of the house is made of watershot coursed sandstone, while the rear wall is constructed of random rubble. The barn features coursed sandstone with quoins. The house has a slate roof, and the barn has a stone slate roof.

The house features three stepped triple-light windows on each floor and a plain doorway located between the second and third bays. The barn has large round-headed wagon entrances in the middle bay, an inserted window to the left, and a doorway that has been altered to serve as a window at the right end. The rear wall of the house appears to have been raised, with the upper level made of watershot coursed blocks. The doorway has a humped lintel with crudely incised lettering that reads "1681 HM RH," and at the junction with the barn, which steps out, there is another datestone, partly obscured by the barn wall, that has raised lettering "1682."

Inside, the layout has been altered, but a through-passage indicates the original plan. The third bay contains a vaulted cellar with a well and a keeping stone.

Local climate

Lower Top O'Th' Bank Farmhouse 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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