Butler Cottage and Butler Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House, farmhouse.

Butler Cottage and Butler Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sacred-portal-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
House, farmhouse
Address
Butler Cottage and Butler Farmhouse, Butler Lane, Baildon
OS grid reference
SE 156 395
Coordinates
53.85235, -1.76418
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Butler Cottage and Butler Farmhouse, also known as No 35 and 37 Church Hill, is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the mid-17th century and is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with dressed quoins and a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high with a single-storey outshut at the rear and follows a two-cell, gable-entry plan.

On the first floor, there are three windows, all of which are double-chamfered mullioned windows. The ground floor windows have hood-moulds, with the first cell (Butler Cottage) featuring a former 5-light window that has been altered to 2 lights and includes an inserted doorway. Above this is a 3-light window. The second cell has a 6-light window that is missing a mullion, and a 4-light window above it. There is also an inserted doorway with French windows to the left of a 2-light fire-window (which also lacks a mullion) and a 4-light window above. The gable is coped with kneelers and has a stack on the right side.

At the rear, there is a low sweeping roof with a blocked 2-light window to the left of a doorway that has tie-stone jambs. There are two other blocked 2-light windows and two later inserted windows. The right-hand return wall features a wide doorway with tie-stone jambs that is blocked, which forms the original gable-entry. Above this is a taking-in-door with tie-stone jambs, partly blocked to a window, and to the left is another doorway with tie-stone jambs.

Inside, the cottage has a stop-chamfered spine beam and a moulded beam with a groove in the soffit for board-and-muntin panelling, of which a small section remains. There is a basket-arched fireplace with a stop-chamfered surround and a king-post truss with single-angle struts. The first-floor chamber has an 18th-century fireplace, likely added when Butler House was built, featuring an architrave and moulded shelf, along with a 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window that is now blocked by Butler House. The farmhouse has a continuation of the same chamfered spine beam found in the cottage, which has a scarf-joint at the north-east end, indicating evidence of a former bressumer.

Local climate

Butler Cottage and Butler Farmhouse 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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