Balk Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Balk Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gallery-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South MP: Stephanie Peacock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Balk Farmhouse, Sheffield Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 344 021
- Coordinates
- 53.51516, -1.48223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Balk Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1800, with later additions. It is constructed of roughcast sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays. It has a plinth and large, exposed quoins. The central door, which is from the 20th century, has a three-pane overlight and is set in an ashlar surround with swept shoulders and a corbelled cornice. A ground-floor sill band connects the 20th-century casement windows, which have glazing bars and are in original square-faced surrounds. There are three similar windows on the first floor. The roof is hipped and has rendered brick end stacks. A later addition on the right side of the building is not of special interest. At the rear, there is a very tall stair window with glazing bars, flanked by two five-light, square-faced, mullioned windows, which have three-light windows above them. Inside, there is a cantilevered stone staircase that now features a 20th-century balustrade.
Local climate
Balk Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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