Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Residential. 3 related planning applications.
Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-niche-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse, Carr Hall Lane, Stainland and District, HX4 9DH
- OS grid reference
- SE 086 189
- Coordinates
- 53.66692, -1.87073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse is a substantial Victorian mock Gothic castle built in the mid-19th century. It features a turret, towers, battlements, a gatehouse, and a stable block, constructed from dressed stone and rubblestone with stone slate roofs. The front facade includes, from the right, a three-storey square embattled tower with two arch-headed windows and lancets. The main two-storey range has three large arch-headed windows and four slightly shorter windows above, all with rusticated sills. A string course runs around the three-storey turret, which has false staircase lancets next to a five-storey tower with lancets on each floor. Above the entrance to the rear courtyard is a three-storey tower with lancets and machicolation, all of which are embattled. To the left, the stable block features rusticated battlements and arch-headed doorways and windows for shire horse stalls. An embattled tower with machicolation balances the facade at the end. The rear of the building forms an intimate courtyard with outbuildings.
Castle Farmhouse was built by the Shaw family, mill owners from Holywell Green, and bears a remarkable similarity to the towers in Shaw Park. It served as the residence for the bailiff who bred shire horses for Brookroyd Mills and was later known as Redman's, named after the bailiff of the Shaw Estate.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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