Tom Pits and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Houses, barn.
Tom Pits and Barn
- WRENN ID
- stark-ember-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Houses, barn
- Address
- Tom Pits and Barn, 1-2, Holt Head
- OS grid reference
- SE 071 122
- Coordinates
- 53.60653, -1.89299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tom Pits and Barn is a late 18th-century building that was formerly two houses and a barn in one range. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with large, roughly hewn plinth stones and some quoins. The building features a pitched stone slate roof with coped gables and moulded footstones on the west side.
The south elevation has a ground floor entrance with a large lintel, stone surrounds, and tie-stones, along with a single-storey lean-to extension. There are two 4-light stone mullioned windows on this floor, one of which is recessed. On the first floor, there are two 3-light stone mullioned windows (one recessed) and one single light window.
The east end has a small doorway with an elliptical arched head, featuring a pronounced keystone and quoins, as well as another small doorway with quoins. On the first floor, there are two 2-light stone mullioned windows.
On the north elevation, the east end, which was the former barn, has been rebuilt with a new window. The dwellings have two 2-light stone mullioned windows on each floor, with one recessed on the ground floor and one recessed on the first floor, along with a small lean-to extension.
Local climate
Tom Pits and Barn 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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