Pigsty and Pigeon House Approximately 45 Metres to North West of Upper Foot Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Pigsty, pigeon house.

Pigsty and Pigeon House Approximately 45 Metres to North West of Upper Foot Farmhouse

WRENN ID
spare-cupola-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1988
Type
Pigsty, pigeon house
OS grid reference
SE 033 255
Coordinates
53.72638, -1.95094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a pigsty and pigeon house, located approximately 45 metres northwest of Upper Foot Farmhouse. It is likely from the late 18th century, with a rear addition from the 18th century that was converted into a cottage in the early 19th century. The structure is made of coursed squared stone and rubble, topped with stone slate roofs.

The pigsty consists of a pair of single-storey sties with front yards, while the pigeon house is situated above and there is an added cell at the rear. The southeast front features yard walls made of rubble with flat coping. Each sty has quoins and a plain stone surround doorway, positioned inside a window that has a stone lintel and a projecting cill. To the right of the right-hand window, there is a slate ledge at lintel level with a blocked rectangular bird opening above it.

On the left side, the addition is set back and constructed of rubble with quoins. It has a blocked 18th-century window opening on the right, a 19th-century doorway and a two-light window to the left, and an 18th-century window opening with a later lintel above. A stack is located on the right at the junction with the sties, and there is a pent roof.

The right side features a chamfered quoined gable doorway leading to the pigeon house. The addition on the right has a bricked-up opening with tiestones on the left and a blocked three-light flat-faced mullion window above on the right. Inside the addition, there is a blocked doorway on the left of the rear wall of the pigsties, which has tiestones and a deep lintel.

Local climate

Pigsty and Pigeon House Approximately 45 Metres to North West of Upper Foot Farmhouse 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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