Barn to Broadfield Farm Tanners is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. A C17 Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn to Broadfield Farm Tanners
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-soffit-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to Broadfield Farm Tanners, Varley Road, HD7 5UD
- OS grid reference
- SE 078 131
- Coordinates
- 53.61483, -1.88218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn, originally part of Broadfield Farm and later used as tanner's buildings. It's constructed of coursed rubble with large quoins, and has a pitched roof covered in stone slates. The barn is approximately one and a half storeys high. The east gable features a dovecote in the apex and a variety of large openings and smaller ventilation slits, some of which are now blocked. A small doorway is present with large quoins to the reveals, a chamfered reveal, and a large lintel shaped with a Tudor arch. The west gable backs onto the ground level at ground floor and has small openings in the apex. A large doorway is present with stone surrounds. The north elevation has a continuous outshut extension and a large central doorway with large quoins.
Local climate
Barn to Broadfield Farm Tanners sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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