Bank Top is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Farmhouse.

Bank Top

WRENN ID
sombre-quartz-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bank Top, Blake Lee Lane
OS grid reference
SE 028 124
Coordinates
53.60828, -1.95849
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bank Top is a mid-19th century farmhouse and outbuildings located in Marsden. The buildings are constructed from hammer-dressed stone with some rock-faced dressings. The barn has a pitched stone slate roof, while the rest of the structures have pitched slate roofs. The gables are coped and rest on moulded footstones. The complex consists of two and one-storey buildings arranged around a courtyard, with an opening on the east side and the barn forming the west side.

The two-storey house is situated at the southeast corner. On the north gable, the ground floor features a doorway with a fanlight, flanked by two single lights that have semicircular arched heads, pronounced voussoirs, and sills supported by small brackets. The first floor has three similar single lights, and the attic includes a small Venetian-style window. The east elevation has two pairs of single lights on each floor, matching the north gable. The south elevation mirrors the north.

The barn's east elevation presents a symmetrical facade with a large central doorway featuring quoins and a semicircular arched head, also rock-faced. There are two smaller doors with similar detailing and two single lights with semicircular arched heads. High above, there are two single lights and a central semicircular light, all with similar detailing. The west elevation resembles the east, although most openings are blocked or partially blocked. The south elevation has one single light with a rock-faced semicircular head, along with four ventilation slits above and three slits in the gable apex. The complex includes north, south, and east wings, with the northeast corner being two-storey. Various openings throughout the building feature semicircular rock-faced heads, and there are several larger window and door openings with elliptical heads, primarily supported by cast iron lintels. Some openings have been blocked.

Local climate

Bank Top 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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