Roper House is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1988. A C18 House. 5 related planning applications.
Roper House
- WRENN ID
- proud-rafter-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Roper House, Roper House Lane, Thurgoland, S35 7BL
- OS grid reference
- SE 284 012
- Coordinates
- 53.50731, -1.57211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roper House is a house dated 1742, located on Roper House Lane in Thurgoland. The building is rendered and features a Welsh slate roof, with stone slates on the rear wing. It stands two storeys tall and has three bays, along with a lower rear wing. The facade is symmetrical and includes quoins. The central doorway is framed by a quoined surround and has a joggled lintel with a keystone inscribed with the year "1742". There are 3-light flat-faced mullion windows on both the left and right sides of the facade on both floors, and a 2-light window is situated above the door. The building has stone brackets supporting the gutter, which are likely from the 19th century. The gable ends have copings on moulded kneelers, and there are ashlar gable stacks.
Local climate
Roper House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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