Moorcroft Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Group of dwellings.
Moorcroft Farm
- WRENN ID
- second-lancet-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Group of dwellings
- Address
- Moorcroft Farm, 1-5, Leymoor Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 100 163
- Coordinates
- 53.64337, -1.85009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorcroft Farm is a group of five dwellings built in the late 18th century. The buildings are constructed from hammer-dressed stone, with some parts rendered, and feature quoins. They have a pitched stone slate roof with gable copings on long carved footstones and paired stone brackets. The structures are two storeys high.
For Nos. 3, 4, and 5, the east elevation has three entrances on the ground floor, each with stone surrounds, two of which include tie-stones. There are also two five-light stone mullioned windows, one of which has casements with rounded heads, and one three-light stone mullioned window. On the first floor, there is a single 16-light stone mullioned window, although four lights have been blocked to create three four-light windows, and one six-light stone mullioned window.
No. 2 is positioned at a 90-degree angle to Nos. 3, 4, and 5. Its ground floor features an entrance with a stone surround and tie-stones, which is currently blocked, and one two-light stone mullioned window. On the first floor, there is a three-light stone mullioned window. The east gable includes a loading door with stone surrounds and tie-stones at first floor level, while the west gable has a lean-to extension with a curved wall and an entrance with a stone surround.
No. 1, located on the west elevation, has a ground floor entrance with a stone surround and two single side lights, which are later additions, as well as another entrance with a stone surround that has been altered and a large modern window. On the first floor, there are three three-light stone mullioned windows, each with one mullion removed.
Local climate
Moorcroft 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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