Higher Seed Lee Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Higher Seed Lee Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-oriel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Seed Lee Farmhouse, Brindle Road, PR5 6AP
- OS grid reference
- SD 583 251
- Coordinates
- 53.72092, -2.63198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of stone with a slate roof, featuring a single ridge chimney stack. The original design incorporated a baffle-entry plan, with three bays. The exterior has a plinth and a band running around three sides. A modern glazed porch sits at the meeting point of the first and second bays, with a single-light window positioned above it. The remaining windows are stone mullion windows, with three lights on each floor, except for the ground floor of the third bay, which has five lights. A single three-light window is present on the left-hand end wall at ground floor level. The rear wall has four first-floor windows, and one ground-floor window in the third bay; some of these have been altered. A former shippon, a farm building, is attached to the right end of the house and has a stone slate roof with a lower pitch.
Inside, the ground floor of all three bays features quarter-round moulded and stopped beams. The second bay contains an inglenook fireplace with a similarly moulded bressummer beam. The first floor has stop-chamfered beams. Internal partitions are timber-framed. A dogleg staircase, characteristic of the 17th century, rises from the ground floor to the attic; it has turned balusters, panelled newels, and a moulded string.
Local climate
Higher Seed Lee 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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