Laund Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Cottages.

Laund Farm

WRENN ID
grey-parapet-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1985
Type
Cottages
Address
Laund Farm, 2, Pole Moor
OS grid reference
SE 065 152
Coordinates
53.63388, -1.90222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century farm, originally two cottages with barns in between, now combined into a single dwelling. The exterior is hammer-dressed stone, partially rendered, with quoins. Window and door surrounds are made of millstone grit. The roof is pitched with stone slate, featuring a coped gable with a chamfered underside. Millstone grit forms the footstones, and the building is two storeys high.

The south-east elevation of No. 2 Laund Farm features a central doorway on the ground floor, distinguished by large millstone grit quoins and a deep lintel. The lintel includes a datestone and initials within a carved motif, typical of the 17th century, although partially obscured by an electric lamp. To the right of the doorway is a three-light stone mullioned window where the mullions have been removed, followed by a four-light window with two removed mullions, and then a single light with a stone surround. The first floor mirrors the ground floor with a three-light and a four-light stone mullioned window, both lacking their original mullions. The rear of the building is rendered and has two projections, which may have served as corbels supporting a canopy over a former doorway.

Barns adjoining the cottages to the north-east have outshut extensions to the south-east. No. 1 Laund Farm, also to the north-east, is a single-storey structure with a pitched stone slate roof and a rendered exterior. Its south-east elevation includes an entrance and a three-light stone mullioned window, again with the mullions removed.

Local climate

Laund Farm 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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