Tower and Roadside Wall to West of Houndhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Boundary wall.

Tower and Roadside Wall to West of Houndhill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
drifting-glass-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Barnsley South MP: Stephanie Peacock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1966
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Tower and Roadside Wall to West of Houndhill Farmhouse, Hound Hill Lane
OS grid reference
SE 336 041
Coordinates
53.53289, -1.49354
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tower and roadside wall to the west of Houndhill Farmhouse is a boundary wall with an attached tower, built around 1640 to 1644 for Richard Elmhirst. It is constructed from rubble sandstone and sits atop a roadside bank, with a circular stone tower at the north end. The wall features triangular copings that rise over a blocked quoined doorway. The tower has a doorway facing Houndhill Farmhouse, which is adorned with chamfered quoins and a curved lintel, and there are four small openings beneath a coped parapet. Inside the tower, narrow stone steps lead to a raised platform behind the parapet. This structure served as a civil war fortification to protect a Royalist garrison at Houndhill.

Local climate

Tower and Roadside Wall to West of Houndhill 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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