Small Former Barn Now Adjoining Number 5 Upper Fold Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1980. Barn.
Small Former Barn Now Adjoining Number 5 Upper Fold Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-truss-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1980
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SE 164 104
- Coordinates
- 53.59047, -1.75261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This small former barn, dating from the 16th century, is now part of the dwelling at No. 5 Upper Fold Farmhouse in Thurstonland. The barn is constructed from coursed rubble and features a stone slate roof that has been turned. It has various recent window openings. Inside, there are two cruck trusses, each with a collar and resting on stone footings. One of the trusses has a sawn-off tie-beam that extends into the walls on either side. The barn also has heavy purlins supporting each pitch of the roof.
Local climate
Small Former Barn Now Adjoining Number 5 Upper Fold Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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