1, 2, and 3/4, Lower Woodhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. A Late C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

1, 2, and 3/4, Lower Woodhead Farmhouse

WRENN ID
forgotten-alcove-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
1, 2, and 3/4, Lower Woodhead Farmhouse, Scammonden Road, Ripponden, HX4 0EJ
OS grid reference
SE 055 177
Coordinates
53.65626, -1.91676
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Woodhead Farmhouse, consisting of Nos 1, 2, and 3/4, is a late 17th century three-cell house that was extended in 1736 to create an additional three cells, with alterations made to the first floor windows. The building is constructed of thin coursed hammer dressed stone and features a stone slate roof, forming a long range under a single roof. The left end of the structure is an 18th century house.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with quoins and coped gables that include moulded kneelers. It has three bays of flat faced mullioned windows, comprising four-lights, four-lights, and three-lights on the ground floor, and four-lights, two-lights, and three-lights on the first floor. There is a doorway with a straight lintel and chamfered surround inscribed "1S /1736" located between the second and third bays, which is protected by a gabled porch.

The remains of quoins indicate the division of the earlier house, which has a three-room plan featuring double chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor with three-lights, four-lights, and three-lights, as well as three flat faced mullioned windows of four-lights on the first floor. There are also three inserted cottage doorways with monolithic jambs. An outshut at the rear of this range was likely added in 1736. The building has four stacks along the ridge.

Local climate

1, 2, and 3/4, Lower Woodhead Farmhouse 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 82% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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