Lawns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1968. Farmhouse.
Lawns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- other-chalk-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley MP: Jake Richards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lawns Farmhouse, York Lane, Whiston
- OS grid reference
- SK 476 893
- Coordinates
- 53.39846, -1.28558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lawns Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble sandstone and features a renewed pantile roof. The building has two storeys and a partial cellar, with five windows on the first floor. Notable architectural details include large quoins and 20th-century part-glazed doors and casements with glazing bars.
The quoined doorway on the far right has a Tudor-arched lintel, while to its left is an altered double-chamfered surround and another unaltered opening without a mullion, which has a similar cellar window below. To the left side of the house is a quoined doorway with a plain lintel, flanked by enlarged three-light openings. On the first floor, there is an enlarged opening on the far left, a small window over the door to the right, and three two-light windows in double-chamfered surrounds, now with lowered projecting sills. The building features kneelers and square-cut gable copings, along with renewed brick end stacks and a ridge stack above the left doorway.
Inside, there is a large fireplace arch backing onto the right gable and a Tudor-arched fireplace in the room above. An extended spine beam in the central room indicates the position of a former smoke-hood. There is a single-storey wing to the rear, which is not of special interest.
Local climate
Lawns Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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