Upper Lumb Cottage Upper Lumb Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. House and cottage.
Upper Lumb Cottage Upper Lumb Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rotunda-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- House and cottage
- Address
- Upper Lumb Cottage Upper Lumb Farmhouse, Deep Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 030 216
- Coordinates
- 53.69151, -1.95465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Lumb Cottage and Upper Lumb Farmhouse is a house and cottage located in Sowerby Bridge, with the house dating from the early to mid-17th century and the cottage added in the 18th century. There have been alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of painted stone and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys, with the house having five first-floor windows and a one-bay cottage on the left.
The cottage has a 20th-century lean-to addition that obscures the ground floor, which has a door on the right and three single-light windows above. The house features double-chamfered mullion windows on the ground floor and chamfered windows above. From left to right on the ground floor, there is a 4-light window that has been reduced to a 2-light window, a 5-light window now reduced to a 3-light window, a 2-light window now reduced to a 1-light fire window, another similar window, and a quoined moulded ogee-arched doorway with a 20th-century door and a lintel that is dated and initialled. There are also a 3-light window now reduced to a 2-light window and a 2-light window now reduced to a 1-light window.
On the first floor, there are two 4-light windows now reduced to 2-light windows and three 2-light windows now reduced to 1-light windows. There are stacks at the left end of the house and on the ridge between the fire windows. At the rear, the house has two gabled wings, with all windows dating from the 20th century. Inside, the left room of the house, which is now part of the cottage, features a small Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplace.
Local climate
Upper Lumb Cottage Upper Lumb Farmhouse 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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