Upper Cockcroft Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1966. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse.
Upper Cockcroft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-threshold-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Upper Cockcroft Farmhouse, Long Causeway, Ripponden
- OS grid reference
- SE 024 181
- Coordinates
- 53.65941, -1.9649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Cockcroft Farmhouse is a house dated 1607, with an added porch from 1701, located off Long Causeway in Rishworth. The building is constructed of large dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and consists of two cells in line, with rear rooms under paired coped gables. There is a plinth at the base.
To the left of the entrance, there is an inserted doorway of 17th century character next to a three-light chamfered mullioned window, which has a similar window above it on the first floor. The farmhouse also includes a double chamfered mullioned and transomed window with 12 lights, complete with a hoodmould featuring spiral stops, and a four-light window above it on the first floor. An altered fire-window has been blocked and turned into a modern window.
Attached to the right side of the building is a porch with a basket arched doorway that has a moulded surround. The lintel of the porch is inscribed "SEL 1701," referring to Samuel and Ellen Lees, and features scrolled plinth blocks. The porch protects the original entry, which has a lintel inscribed " :G.H. ANNO:DOMI: 1607" to the right of the heck-post.
The farmhouse is connected to Upper Cockcroft by a room added in 1642, which has a ten-light double chamfered mullioned and transomed window, with a five-light window above on the first floor. The rear of the building is rendered but retains some mullioned windows. There is one stack in the structure.
Inside, the heck-post supports a bressumer and the interior preserves the jambs of a fireplace with a carved fleur-de-lys in relief.
Local climate
Upper Cockcroft 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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