Higher House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Higher House
- WRENN ID
- old-stone-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher House, Tenter Hill Lane, Hebden Royd, HX7 5TA
- OS grid reference
- SD 999 224
- Coordinates
- 53.69848, -2.00245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher House is a derelict house dated and initialled "W S N/1666". It is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof that survives in parts only. The building has two storeys and features a three-room front with a rear dairy, following a through-passage plan.
The ground floor has double chamfered mullioned windows, while the first floor has chamfered mullioned windows. There is a four-light window above the ground floor. An inserted 19th-century doorway has monolithic jambs, and there is a six-light housebody window with a four-light window above it. A two-light fire-window is accompanied by a four-light flat-faced mullioned window above. The doorway features composite jambs and a Tudor arch lintel with the date set within a tressure and a stop chamfered surround. To the right of the door is a small square chamfered opening that is blocked, with a two-light window above it.
There are two former two-light windows with hoodmoulds that have heart-shaped label stops, and other hoodmoulds with straight returns over the ground floor windows. Above these is a three-light window. Most windows are missing some mullions. The left-hand return wall has an extruded stack with offsets, and some windows survive on the ground floor at the rear. This once fine building has suffered from neglect and abuse over the years.
Local climate
Higher House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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