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

Workhouse Green Farmhouse and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
ruined-gravel-tide
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 Green Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Edge Lane, Heptonstall
OS grid reference
SD 949 296
Coordinates
53.76309, -2.07845
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Workhouse Green Farmhouse and the attached barn date back to 1633, with alterations and additions made in the early 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed from dressed stone with a stone slate roof and consists of two storeys and three cells. The south front features a 19th-century flat-faced mullioned window with five lights, along with two first-floor windows above it, each with two lights. There is also a chamfered mullioned window with five lights and a similar window above, as well as a four-light window that has been partly opened to create a doorway, with a corresponding window above. A gable stack is located on the left side of the building.

On the rear, there is a doorway with a dated lintel and a chamfered surround to the left of a 19th-century doorway that has tie-stone jambs. At the first-floor level, quoins mark the end of the original two-cell house. To the left of the door, there is a small arch-headed light with sunken spandrels. The barn has a lower roofline, featuring a semi-circular arched cart entry at the front and a doorway with tie-stone jambs at the rear. The interiors of both the farmhouse and barn have been significantly altered and are featureless.

Local climate

Workhouse Green 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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