Lower Wickens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Lower Wickens Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-portal-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Wickens Farmhouse, Wickens Lane, Holme Valley, HD9 3RB
- OS grid reference
- SE 125 087
- Coordinates
- 53.57523, -1.81169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Wickens Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, constructed from hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The building features gable copings on carved kneelers and an ashlar stack with a string course and moulded stone brackets. It is two storeys high and has a near central doorway with a deep lintel. The front elevation includes one five-light and one three-light stone mullioned window, while the first floor has one six-light stone mullioned window (with two central lights blocked) and one three-light window. On the rear elevation, there is one two-light stone mullioned window on the first floor. The north end of the farmhouse slightly projects forward and has one three-light window along with an altered ground floor window.
Local climate
Lower Wickens 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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