Barn at Lower Hirst Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Barn.
Barn at Lower Hirst Farm
- WRENN ID
- inner-rubble-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Lower Hirst Farm, Shaw Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 094 178
- Coordinates
- 53.65671, -1.85909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Lower Hirst Farm, dating from the early to mid 19th century, is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a pitched stone slate roof with coped gables. It has segment-headed barn doors and two rows of six segment-headed ventilation slits on each side. Inside, there are queen post trusses, with two supported by an internal stone porch and two resting on cylindrical stone pillars that rise to the full height of the interior.
Local climate
Barn at Lower Hirst Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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