Upper House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. House.

Upper House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-corridor-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
House
Address
Upper House Farmhouse, Eastwood Lane, Todmorden
OS grid reference
SD 963 260
Coordinates
53.73074, -2.05749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upper House Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an added porch that features an inscribed lintel reading "1 7 1 6 I M E," believed to refer to John Manly Eastwood. The building is constructed of large dressed stone and has a stone slate roof. It has a two-room plan with a rear aisle that originally had an entry, which is now a gable entry.

The two-storey south front includes a plinth and double chamfered mullioned windows, with four lights and ten lights on the ground floor, both of which have a stepped hoodmould that runs continuously over them. The first floor features chamfered mullioned windows with three lights and one window with four lights, which has a lowered sill that now forms two wide lights. The right-hand return wall has two chamfered mullioned windows with two lights on the first floor.

At the rear, there is a single-storey outshut beneath a cat-slide roof, which has a chamfered mullioned window with two lights to the left of a stop-chamfered doorway that has been reduced to a window. The left-hand return wall has a two-light double chamfered mullioned window on the ground floor, while the first floor has two inserted windows with an earlier single-storey roofline between them.

The wide single-storey gabled porch features a 19th-century doorway with tie-stones and a large window with plain stone surrounds. Above the door is the inscribed lintel, and there is a stack at the apex for a beehive oven located inside the porch, which is an unusual position. Additionally, there is one stack on the south gable.

Local climate

Upper House 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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