Church Farmhouse with Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1955. House, church and Sunday school.
Church Farmhouse with Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- tenth-railing-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1955
- Type
- House, church and Sunday school
- Address
- Church Farmhouse with Church and Sunday School, Church Farm, Newsholme, Oakworth, Keighley, BD22 0QT
- OS grid reference
- SE 020 398
- Coordinates
- 53.85455, -1.97034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse, which now serves as a house, church, and Sunday school, dates back to 1670, as indicated by the inscription 'RH: SH, 1670'. Part of the building was converted for church and Sunday school use in 1844. It is constructed from dressed stone with stone slate roofs and has two storeys.
The house section, located on the right, features five first-floor windows and a gable entry. It has a chamfered plinth and round-headed-light double-chamfered windows on the ground floor arranged in groups of three, four, three, and three lights, while the first floor has three, three, three, two, and one light windows. A drip mould runs across the chapel and the right gable. The building has ashlar coping and a central stack with tabling to the right, along with a similar stack at the ridge.
The chapel on the left is taller and has four first-floor windows. It features a chamfered quoined doorway to the left, with two three-light windows on the ground floor, similar to the house, and four transomed windows above with two, two, three, and three lights. The chapel also has ashlar coping and a bellcote on the left gable.
On the right return, there is an entrance at the base of the stack, which serves as a porch. This porch has a chamfered quoined doorway with a decorated lintel and a datestone above. Inside the porch are benches and an inner nail-studded board door set in a chamfered quoined surround. To the left of the stack are a two-light and a one-light window, with similar windows above and in the gable, which is blind. The right side of the stack projects forward and features drip moulds, one- and two-light windows on the ground floor, a three-light window on the first floor, and two blind one-light windows above.
At the rear, there are double-chamfered mullion windows, some of which have had their mullions removed. The chapel has two cross-windows.
Inside the house, there is a basket-arched fireplace with voussoirs, massive chamfered beams and joists, and chamfered stone doorways.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse with Church and Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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