Close Head House and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Villa, barn.
Close Head House and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- fallen-solder-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Villa, barn
- OS grid reference
- SE 083 329
- Coordinates
- 53.79257, -1.87544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Close Head House and the adjoining barn, dated 1857, is a two-storey, three-bay villa with a service wing, likely a recasing of an earlier farmhouse, and includes a barn to the north-east. This type of villa design from this period is uncommon in the area. The building is constructed from thin sandstone "bricks" with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a stone slate roof featuring a moulded eaves cornice. It has flanking chimneys with bracketed cornices and a symmetrical south front. The central first-floor sash window is set in a rusticated surround, flanked by two-storey pilastered canted bay windows. The pilastered doorway features a dated frieze and moulded cornice, with an impost moulding at the spring of the fanlight arch. The barn, which is set back, has a stone slate roof and a segmental archway. Close Head House is prominently situated on a terrace that overlooks the valley below Thornton.
Local climate
Close Head House and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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