Gate Piers to Garden Front of Lower Ashes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Gate pier. 1 related planning application.
Gate Piers to Garden Front of Lower Ashes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-gravel-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- Gate pier
- Address
- Gate Piers to Garden Front of Lower Ashes Farmhouse, Ashes Lane, Todmorden, OL14 8RF
- OS grid reference
- SD 949 253
- Coordinates
- 53.72415, -2.07797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers to the garden front of Lower Ashes Farmhouse were built around 1759, likely at the same time as alterations to the farmhouse itself. They are made of ashlar stone and are square in shape, featuring fluted Doric pilasters on two faces. At the top, there is a wide dentil cornice that is topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
Gate Piers to Garden Front of Lower Ashes Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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