Workhouse Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. A C19 Farmhouse.

Workhouse Farmhouse and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
outer-chimney-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Workhouse Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Edge Lane, Heptonstall
OS grid reference
SD 948 296
Coordinates
53.7634, -2.07931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Workhouse Farmhouse and the attached barn, dated 1828, is a laithe-house constructed from hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys. The barn on the left features a mistal doorway and a basket-arched cart entry, with a simple Venetian window positioned above. To the left of the barn, there is a blocked doorway next to a 5-light flat-faced mullioned window, with two 2-light windows above on the first floor. A 7-light window with a similar design is located above another doorway that has tie-stone jambs. The right-hand return wall includes a 2-light window on the first floor and in the attic. A date stone inscribed "This House and barn Rebuilt by John Mitchell 1828" is present. The building has a coped gable with kneelers and a single stack at the ridge, along with additional mullion windows at the rear. It was once used as overspill accommodation for the township workhouse at Everhill Shaw.

Local climate

Workhouse Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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