Acre Farmhouse, Mounting Block and Attached Acre House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Acre Farmhouse, Mounting Block and Attached Acre House
- WRENN ID
- far-cobble-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Acre Farmhouse, Mounting Block and Attached Acre House, Widdop Road, Heptonstall, HX7 7AZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 972 292
- Coordinates
- 53.75947, -2.04377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acre Farmhouse, together with the attached Acre House, is a house dating from about 1700. A rear wing and a front addition were constructed in the mid-18th century. The building is now divided into two residences and is built of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a three-room plan. Attached at a right angle to the service end is a kitchen with a lean-to roof and a tall stack to the rear. A chamfered, stepped window with two lights over three is in the kitchen. A mounting block, consisting of five steps on either side, is attached to the front of the kitchen. A four-light, chamfered mullioned window is situated above the service end. The doorway has a segmental arched lintel and a cyma-moulded surround. Double-chamfered mullioned windows, without hoodmoulds, are present; those on the first floor have six lights below and five above, similar to the ground floor. A stairwindow with a plain stone surround is visible on the right-hand return wall at mezzanine level. The rear wing originally had six-light, flat-faced mullioned windows on each floor, now altered to form two wide openings. There are three stacks, coped gables with kneelers. Inside the main part of the house, there is a contemporary segmental arched fireplace with a lintel carried on corbelled jambs and a cyma-moulded surround. A dog-leg staircase has finely turned balusters, a ramped handrail, a close string with a pulvinated panel and raised and fielded panels. The ceiling over the stairs features a decorative plaster boss. The parlour has a plaster panelled ceiling with two central circular features, which are likely mid-19th century additions.
Local climate
Acre Farmhouse, Mounting Block and Attached Acre House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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