Model Farm to Dobroyd Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Farm.
Model Farm to Dobroyd Castle
- WRENN ID
- riven-corridor-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- Farm
- Address
- Model Farm to Dobroyd Castle, Dobroyd Road, Todmorden
- OS grid reference
- SD 926 237
- Coordinates
- 53.71001, -2.11288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Model Farm to Dobroyd Castle is a farm range located to the east of the keep, featuring flanking towers to the west, with the northernmost tower serving as the farmhouse. The buildings are connected by low cart sheds and are two storeys high. The western towers each have two bays of windows with plain stone surrounds on both floors, and a doorway is situated between them. A tall parapet rises to form a gablet on the return walls, which also support dressed stacks. The eastern keep has a similar parapet that is embattled, featuring a central gablet.
Local climate
Model Farm to Dobroyd Castle 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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