Lower Castle Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Lower Castle Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-terrace-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Castle Hill Farmhouse, Lumb Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 156 140
- Coordinates
- 53.62282, -1.76473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Castle Hill Farmhouse is an 18th century building, possibly older, located on Lumb Lane in Almondbury. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with barn rubble and features a pitched stone slate roof. The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan that includes a barn and is two storeys high.
On the first floor, there are three pairs of two-light stone mullioned windows, although the lights between them have been blocked. The ground floor has later sash windows. The east wing also contains three pairs of two-light stone mullioned windows, with the intervening lights blocked as well. The barn section has planked doors on either side and features king post trusses with arch braces and wind braces.
Local climate
Lower Castle Hill 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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