Bents Knoll is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. House, agricultural building.
Bents Knoll
- WRENN ID
- dusk-joist-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1984
- Type
- House, agricultural building
- Address
- Bents Knoll, Widdop Road, Heptonstall
- OS grid reference
- SD 967 305
- Coordinates
- 53.77166, -2.05037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bents Knoll is a house, now used for agricultural purposes, dating from the mid 17th century. It is constructed of rubble brought to course with dressed quoins and has a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a three-room plan with opposed doorways, although it lacks a passage opening directly into the service area.
On the ground floor, there are double chamfered mullioned windows, while the first floor features single chamfered windows. The ground floor includes a four-light window with a three-light window above it; a 19th-century doorway has been created from the four-light window, and there is a former two-light fire-window that has been altered to form a doorway. This doorway has composite jambs and a chamfered surround, with a three-light window above on the first floor. The rear of the building has a similar doorway, a two-light window, and two small chamfered lights. There is a gable stack at the service end and the remains of another stack. The right-hand return wall has two three-light windows.
Local climate
Bents Knoll 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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