2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- turning-passage-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- 2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office, Kirkburton, HD4 6XX
- OS grid reference
- SE 165 104
- Coordinates
- 53.59005, -1.75145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the 17th century and altered subsequently. It is now divided into three separate dwellings: 2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm, and 10 The Post Office. The construction is of thinly coursed rubble, with quoins, and has a stone slate roof with gable copings and moulded kneelers. The building has two storeys and an H-plan, with a gabled cross-wing on each side of the central part.
A late 18th or early 19th century outshut was added to the rear of the main house body. Later dwellings have been added to the front gable of the left wing. The front of the house has a chamfered surround to the entrance, and a three-light double-chamfered window to the right of the house body; the same window type is on the first floor. The left wing, within the later dwellings, has a blocked five-light double-chamfered window, formerly with a hood-mould. The right wing formerly had a three-light double-chamfered window on each floor, but the ground floor window has been altered and a mullion is missing from the upper floor. The right side elevation has a central doorway, probably from the 18th century, along with a three-light and a four-light double-chamfered window, both altered, plus several recent windows and one blocked fire window.
The side elevation of the left wing, which now houses the Post Office, has late 18th century openings, with a central doorway and three-light windows on each side. There are three three-light windows to the first floor. Mullions have been removed from all but the ground floor window on the right-hand side.
The interior of the main house body features chamfered and reed-moulded beams.
Local climate
2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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