Dark Wood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1984. Farmhouse.
Dark Wood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-brick-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SE 065 134
- Coordinates
- 53.6175, -1.90287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dark Wood Farmhouse is a late 18th century and early 19th century farmhouse constructed of hammer-dressed stone with quoins and a pitched stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high.
On the southeast elevation, the ground floor features a central doorway with a stone surround, one four-light stone mullioned window, and two two-light stone mullioned windows. The first floor has one five-light stone mullioned window and two recessed three-light stone mullioned windows.
The northeast gable has a ground floor doorway with a stone surround and one two-light stone mullioned window, although the mullion and inner surround have been removed. A former three-light stone mullioned window has been blocked at the central light. The first floor includes one two-light stone mullioned window.
On the southwest gable, the ground floor has a doorway with stone surrounds and tie-beams, along with one three-light stone mullioned window. The first floor features two two-light stone mullioned windows.
Local climate
Dark Wood Farmhouse 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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