The Old Farmhouse and High Lee Farmhouse, High Lee is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Farmhouse and High Lee Farmhouse, High Lee
- WRENN ID
- fallen-gravel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse and High Lee Farmhouse, High Lee, 1 and 2, Sowerby Lane, HX2 6LB
- OS grid reference
- SE 032 248
- Coordinates
- 53.71962, -1.95262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse and High Lee Farmhouse comprise three dwellings, dating back to the first quarter of the 17th century, and recorded in a Glebe list from 1626. The building underwent substantial rebuilding in the late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed stone and has a stone slate roof. The original design was likely a hall with cross-wings, featuring a through passage. The south front is two storeys and three bays wide. The first bay has a three-light mullion window, with a two-light window above. A straight joint marks the boundary between the first and second bays, suggesting the second bay was rebuilt forward of the original wall line. The second bay has a doorway with a deep, chamfered lintel on its right side, next to a seven-light, double-chamfered mullion window. The mullions within this window are hollow-chamfered. Above this window are a two-light and a one-light flat-faced mullion window. The third bay features quoins and a 19th-century door, with a two-light and a three-light window to its left, topped by a three-light window. All feature hollow-chamfered surrounds and mullions that have been removed. Coping is present on the left side. Three ridge stacks have chamfered capstones. On the rear, the left bay has a four-light window, now reduced to two lights, alongside a three-light window above. The central bay, separated by a straight joint, features a door with a chamfered lintel and a quoined left jamb, adjacent to a two-light chamfered mullion window. The right bay projects forward and is gabled, with a stack at the rear. A chamfered mullion window, now replaced with a modern window, is visible on the left return, along with a three-light window above, where the mullions have been removed. The right return has a three-light chamfered window, with missing mullions. Inside the central bay, The Old Farmhouse, the through passage has an inner Tudor-arched doorway and a chamfered stone course above the left-hand cross-wall. The housebody contains a stone fireplace with a deep lintel, reused chamfered spine beams, and wide first-floor floorboards. A barrel-vaulted cellar sits under the rear room and dates to the 18th century, featuring a three-light window; the outer lights are blind and the mullions have rebates for shutters. The roof includes purlins with heavy scantling.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse and High Lee Farmhouse, High Lee 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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