Lower Beestonhirst is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. A C18 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Beestonhirst
- WRENN ID
- waning-cupola-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Beestonhirst, Rochdale Road, Ripponden, HX6 4LL
- OS grid reference
- SE 013 189
- Coordinates
- 53.66726, -1.9811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 1765 laithe-house, initialled "J S S". It is constructed of thin, hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof, and has quoins. To the left is a barn with a mistal doorway featuring monolithic jambs. A segmental arched cart entrance has skewbacks, an expressed keystone, and an apron supporting an inscribed date tablet. A single-light window is set into a room that was taken out of a three-bay barn, which has a queen-strut roof and a hayloft above. A doorway with monolithic jambs is located alongside two bays of flat-faced mullioned windows, featuring overlapping lintels and sills of two lights without glazing. The right-hand return wall has a doorway with thin monolithic jambs. The rear elevation features flat-faced mullioned windows of two and four lights. Two dressed stacks are located along the ridge.
Local climate
Lower Beestonhirst 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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