Lower Winsley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Farmhouse.
Lower Winsley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-railing-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Winsley Farmhouse, Upper Lane, Todmorden
- OS grid reference
- SD 945 260
- Coordinates
- 53.73122, -2.08451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Winsley Farmhouse is a house dated 1636, built from large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a south front featuring a three-room plan. The building has quoins and coped gables with kneelers. The central housebody includes a two-light fire-window and an altered window above, flanked by two windows with chamfered surrounds that were originally two lights. There is a dressed stack at the ridge over the fire-window.
To the left, there is a single-cell section with a chamfered window and a doorway that has a rough dressed lintel and composite jambs. Above this is a blocked four-light chamfered window. To the right, there is another single-cell section with a 20th-century lean-to porch next to a window with a chamfered surround. Above this is a four-light chamfered mullioned window that is missing its mullions.
At the rear, the house retains a chamfered mullioned window of two lights and an altered original doorway featuring a date on a heavy square lintel set within a tressure. This doorway would have originally formed a through-passage plan. There is a noticeable break between each of the three cells, suggesting that the housebody was built first for immediate accommodation, followed by the addition of the two end rooms, as all the stonework and window details appear to be contemporary. Inside the eastern room, there are finely reeded spine-beams and floor joists.
Local climate
Lower Winsley 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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