Knoll Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Knoll Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-chamber-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Knoll Top Farmhouse, Todmorden
- OS grid reference
- SD 948 204
- Coordinates
- 53.68012, -2.0787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knoll Top Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 17th century, with a mid-19th century addition. The original 17th-century section is built from thin rubble stone and features large, rough-dressed quoins, while the 19th-century part is constructed of hammer-dressed stone. Both sections have a stone slate roof and are two storeys high.
The 17th-century house has double chamfered mullioned windows with two lights on the ground floor facing northeast, and similar windows with two lights above. The doorway has a heavy lintel and a chamfered surround. On the southwest facade, there is a four-light double chamfered mullioned window, along with a single chamfered light and another two-light window on the first floor. There is a similar doorway at the rear, which leads to a through passage. The gable is coped.
It appears that the house was originally more than one cell, but the 19th-century addition has obscured this, except for a fireplace that remains inside the rear room of the double-pile section. This fireplace features corbelled jambs, a chamfered surround, and a decorated lintel inscribed with "A S F." The 19th-century addition is a storey taller than the original building and has windows with projecting sills. There are four chimney stacks in total. Attached to the northwest gable is a single-storey outbuilding from the late 18th century, which includes a three-light flat-faced mullioned window on the south side.
Local climate
Knoll Top Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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