Lower Moss Hall and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1980. House. 1 related planning application.

Lower Moss Hall and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
third-foundation-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1980
Type
House
Address
Lower Moss Hall and Attached Barn, Lower Causeway, Blackshaw, HX7 7JB
OS grid reference
SD 951 275
Coordinates
53.74425, -2.07467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Moss Hall is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations from the 18th century, and an attached barn added in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and has a stone slate roof. It features a three-room hall-and-cross-wing plan, although the left end of the cross-wing is in ruins.

The main range faces north towards the road and has a doorway with a lugged architrave and triangular pediment. To the left of the doorway is a three-light chamfered mullioned window, with a four-light window above it on the first floor. To the right of the doorway, there are double chamfered mullioned windows with two lights (possibly a fire-window) and four lights, as well as an inserted doorway made from the remains of a four-light window with a king mullion, now altered to one light and three lights. The first floor has a blocked taking-in door and four square windows with chamfered surrounds.

Between the house and the barn are quoins, and the barn features a semi-circular arched cart entry with an impost block and an owl hole above. At the junction of the house and barn is a mistal doorway with composite jambs and a chamfered surround. The south front has quoins and a segmental-arched cart entry with a stop chamfered surround, which may date from the 17th century and be reused.

The gabled porch has paired doorways and long kneelers to the left of a double chamfered mullioned window that was originally four lights. There is also a six-light window with a king mullion and a two-light fire-window. Inside this room, there is a segmental-arched fireplace with a cyma moulded surround. The first floor contains chamfered mullioned windows with four lights and three with two lights, although many lack some or all of their mullions. The building has a single stack at the ridge.

Local climate

Lower Moss Hall and Attached Barn 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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