Simon Fold (Barn on West Side of Number 2) is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1977. Barn.
Simon Fold (Barn on West Side of Number 2)
- WRENN ID
- quiet-chancel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1977
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Simon Fold (Barn on West Side of Number 2), Town Gate Bd12
- OS grid reference
- SE 152 269
- Coordinates
- 53.7385, -1.76959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn dated 1802, located on the west side of Number 2 Simon Fold. It is constructed from irregularly coursed sandstone "brick" and features a stone slate roof. The barn has ventilation slits and a segmental ashlar voussoir archway at the center of the east front. Above the archway is a date stone displaying the initials C over W M. The barn forms the western boundary of the fold yard and completes the view between Nos 84-86 and 88-90 Town Gate.
Local climate
Simon Fold (Barn on West Side of Number 2) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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