Higher Wormald is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1984. A Late C17 Residential. 1 related planning application.
Higher Wormald
- WRENN ID
- worn-finial-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Higher Wormald, Back O Th Height, Ripponden, HX6 4RF
- OS grid reference
- SE 011 185
- Coordinates
- 53.66315, -1.98378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Wormald is a laithe-house dated 1796, built incorporating a single-cell of a late 17th-century house to the south front. It is constructed of thin-coursed hammer-dressed stone with ashlar quoins, and has a stone slate roof. The two-cell cottage section features a four-light, thin, flat-faced mullioned window above a similar window to the first floor; a doorway with monolithic jambs and an overlapping lintel; a five-light window; and a doorway with monolithic jambs to the left of a segmental arched cart entry above which is a tablet engraved "WJ/1796". A mistal doorway is located to the right. Two rectangular ventilators are also present.
The rear elevation shows remnants of an earlier building from the late 17th century, with larger dressed stone above the ground floor windows. There is a two-light chamfered mullioned fire-window to the left of a five-light chamfered mullioned window. The first floor has a seven-light, thin, flat-faced mullioned window. The added laithe-house section includes a six-light, similar mullioned window. Fragments of a ridge stack remain.
Local climate
Higher Wormald 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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