Upper House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Upper House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-cloister-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper House Farmhouse, North Lane, Cawthorne, S75 4AF
- OS grid reference
- SE 263 068
- Coordinates
- 53.55733, -1.60434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper House Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 17th century, with later additions from the 18th or 19th century at the rear, which faces the road. The building is constructed from thinly coursed rubble and features quoins, topped with a stone slate roof. It has a rectangular plan made up of two parallel ranges, with the roof linked in an H-plan style.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and originally had attics, comprising three bays. The front is symmetrical, featuring double-chamfered windows with hoodmoulds. There is a central doorway that is now partially blocked, surrounded by a quoined, chamfered frame. To the left and right of the doorway are transomed windows with four over four lights. The first floor has 4-light windows flanking a central 2-light window, all under a common hoodmould. There are also two blocked attic windows. The gable copings are hollow-chamfered and rest on moulded kneelers, with apex finials, although those at the verges are missing. A 19th-century ornamental central brick stack is present, along with an ashlar lateral stack on the left side.
The rear elevation is thought to have originally mirrored the front, but the central and left sections are now partially obscured by a two-storey addition, which is believed to have been a granary. This addition features a later first-floor doorway accessed by stone steps in its gable. The right side of the house retains some altered mullioned windows and additional later openings, while the left side has been rebuilt. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Upper House Farmhouse receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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