Lower Wood Royd Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Wood Royd Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-spindle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Wood Royd Farmhouse, Wood Royd Hill Lane, Holme Valley, HD9 7TY
- OS grid reference
- SE 179 056
- Coordinates
- 53.5475, -1.72992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Wood Royd Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse, part of a larger group. The walls are rendered, and it has a stone slate roof with two stone stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high. A central door is framed by a Tudor arch set within a deep lintel. To the left of the door, on both ground and first floors, is a shallow, double-chamfered three-light window. To the right of the door is a sash window on the ground floor, and a three-light stone mullioned window with square-cut lights on the first floor. An outshut extension is located to the rear. A barn to the left is not part of this listing.
Local climate
Lower Wood Royd Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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