Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- floating-pilaster-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Otley Road, Bingley, BD16 3AZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 126 415
- Coordinates
- 53.87023, -1.80938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toils Farmhouse and the attached barn, incorrectly marked as Middle Farm on Ordnance Survey maps, date back to around 1770. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with dressed quoins and features a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high, with a five-bay barn located to the left of a two-cell central baffle-entry house.
The house has a doorway with monolithic jambs and a cyma-moulded surround that rises to create a false ogee lintel. Above this doorway is a single-light window with a similar surround and a false-arched lintel. On both floors, there are three-light flat-faced mullioned windows with recessed mullions that have inner chamfers and chamfered surrounds. A central stack is offset from the ridge. The barn features a segmental-arched cart entry with skewbacks and composite jambs, and to the left, there is a mistal doorway with monolithic jambs and a chamfered surround. The left bay of the barn is now part of the house. An extension to the house on the right is designed to match the original structure, reusing the original coping and kneelers.
Inside the house, the main body features a fireplace with monolithic jambs and a segmental-arched bressumer with incised voussoirs. The spine beams and floor joists are stop-chamfered and have ogee stops. The parlour also has a similar beamed ceiling. It is noted that John Wesley stayed here on several occasions in 1776 while preaching in Bingley and Ilkley. A window previously contained an engraved piece of glass depicting Wesley and an elegy to his death, dated 1776; this glass is now preserved in Eldwick Methodist Church.
Additionally, there is an outbuilding with a reused datestone from around 1777, suggesting that the house may have been built around the same time.
Local climate
Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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