Lower Chapel Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. A C18 Farmhouse.
Lower Chapel Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-crypt-merlin
- 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 Chapel Hill Farmhouse, Hurst Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 817 235
- Coordinates
- 53.70807, -2.27857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Chapel Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, probably from the early 18th century, that has been altered and is now derelict. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof with two ridge chimneys. The building has a T-shaped layout with a single-depth, three-bay plan and a short wing at the center of the east side, which includes a porch.
The farmhouse is two storeys high, and the front facing the lane has irregular window arrangements. The windows are either mullioned or square, with those on the ground floor featuring thin hoodmoulds. The windows at the right end on both floors have double-recessed heads, while the first-floor window at the left end has three small lights that are blocked. The right (south) gable has a plain doorway and a square two-light window on each floor. The rear of this bay includes one vertical rectangular light with a long hoodmould that extends to the right. The wing has a plain doorway offset to the left, with one window on each floor and another on the left side. There is also a later lean-to in the further angle. The north gable features a raised doorway, a window to the left, and a small cellar light below it.
Inside, the middle bay has chamfered beams that are supported at the south end by a steel beam, which replaces the former inglenook bressumer.
Local climate
Lower Chapel Hill 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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