Causeway Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. A C18 House.
Causeway Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusted-jamb-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Causeway Head Farmhouse, 3, Helmshore Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 783 219
- Coordinates
- 53.69395, -2.32969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Causeway Head Farmhouse is a house and cottage from the late 18th century that has been altered and renovated into a single dwelling. It is constructed of watershot coursed sandstone and features a stone slate roof with brick chimneys at the gables. The building has a three-bay plan and is two storeys high. There is a doorway with a plain surround located at the junction of the first and second bays, while a former doorway at the other junction has been altered to serve as a window. The ground floor has three flush mullioned windows with configurations of three, two, and three lights, while the first floor has three flush mullioned windows with two, two, and three lights, with the windows in the third bay stepped and the others of irregular size and shape. Additionally, there are three inserted windows on the first floor. Farm buildings are attached at the rear.
Local climate
Causeway Head 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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