Sylvesters Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Sylvesters Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-turret-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sylvesters Farmhouse, Whitley Lane, Ecclesfield, S35 8RQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 342 946
- Coordinates
- 53.4473, -1.48542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sylvesters Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse constructed of coursed, squared sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. It is a two-storey building with three windows to the first floor, and a lower, one-bay wing to the rear right. The farmhouse has large quoins. The ground floor has been altered; a part-glazed door is located to the left of centre, flanked by a three-light casement to its left and a two-light casement to its right. A blocked doorway, now obscured by vegetation, is situated to the right of centre, with a two-light casement to its right. The first floor has two double-chamfered mullion windows with three lights each, with a two-light casement to the far left. The roof features moulded kneelers and chamfered gable copings to the right. A shouldered ashlar ridge stack is visible at the centre, with a rebuilt shaft. The right return side has a lean-to extension to the gable, and three single-light, double-chamfered windows in the gable wall. The rear wing has a double-chamfered mullion window on each floor; the ground floor window lacks mullions. Later additions to the right, to the rear, and an adjoining converted farm building to the left of the farmhouse, which are under the same roof, are not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Sylvesters Farmhouse receives an average of 890 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 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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