Whitelea Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Farmhouse.
Whitelea Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-lime-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whitelea Farmhouse, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 032 119
- Coordinates
- 53.60398, -1.95198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitelea Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1769, with later alterations. It is built from coursed narrow, hammer-dressed stone with large quoins made of millstone grit. The roof is pitched and covered with blue slate, featuring a tiled ridge, and there is a rendered brick chimney. The building has two storeys.
On the east elevation, the ground floor features a door with a deep millstone grit lintel inscribed with "IB 1769" and stone jambs that include large tie-stones. There is also one 2-light double chamfered stone mullioned window, although the mullion has been removed. The first floor has later windows with stone surrounds and modern casements.
The north gable, at a lower ground level, has one 3-light recessed chamfered stone mullioned window, with two lights blocked. Above the doorway, there is a stone-carved face.
On the west elevation, the ground floor includes one 4-light double chamfered stone mullioned window, from which two mullions have been removed, and one 5-light double chamfered stone mullioned window, also with two mullions removed. The first floor has two 4-light chamfered stone mullioned windows, each with two mullions removed.
Local climate
Whitelea Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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