Home Farmhouse and range of farm buildings enclosing foldyard to south, including attached walls and freestanding wall with pig troughs is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1986. Farm group.
Home Farmhouse and range of farm buildings enclosing foldyard to south, including attached walls and freestanding wall with pig troughs
- WRENN ID
- sunken-paling-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rother Valley MP: Jake Richards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1986
- Type
- Farm group
- Address
- Home Farmhouse and range of farm buildings enclosing foldyard to south, including attached walls and freestanding wall with pig troughs, New Road, Firbeck
- OS grid reference
- SK 567 890
- Coordinates
- 53.39505, -1.14817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century planned farm group, altered in 1881. It originally served the Firbeck Hall estate. The buildings comprise a farmhouse, a range of farm buildings forming a foldyard to the south, attached walls, and a freestanding wall with pig troughs. The construction is predominantly of coursed squared rubble limestone with pantile roofs.
The farm buildings are arranged in a near-symmetrical, quadrangular plan, mostly single-storey in height. A five-bay barn stands to the north, flanked to the left by an altered outbuilding and to the right by the farmhouse, which now has an added storey. An attached stable-block wing forms part of the east side of the yard; the west side is defined by a detached cowhouse and a detached pigsty, with walls enclosing the yard, one wall having pig troughs.
The barn has large quoins and a central waggon entrance with an elliptical arch, flanked by slit vents, shaped kneelers, and gable copings. The attached outbuilding on the left retains its original door and a slatted casement, while other openings are spanned by girders.
The attached farmhouse has a French window in place of an original opening, a cambered arch above it, and two casements on the added upper storey, one bearing a plaque dated "1881". Plinths and bands mark the right end stack, and a ridge stack is on the left.
The attached stable block, forming a wing to the front right of the farmhouse, has an ashlar surround to a boarded door on the right, with a later casement beside it. Multiple-paned casements are on the left, with mounting steps and later openings beyond. Shaped kneelers and gable copings are present at the right end of this range.
The eight-bay cowhouse has segmental-arched heads to doors in bays two, six and eight, and slatted casements in the other bays, with shaped kneelers and gable copings.
The three-bay gabled pigsty has a door flanked by shuttered casements, gable slits, shaped kneelers, and gable copings. The roof was absent at the time of resurvey, and there is a stack to the rear gable. Internal returns are of brick and include attached stone-walled pig pens and wing walls enclosing the yard.
A freestanding wall in front of the pigsty has an arcade of nine pig troughs fed by two internal shutes; an attached wall on the left forms a division of the yard.
Despite alterations, the farm group retains essential elements of a planned farm, which is unusual for this area.
Local climate
Home Farmhouse and range of farm buildings enclosing foldyard to south, including attached walls and freestanding wall with pig troughs receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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