Sowood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Farmhouse.

Sowood Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crumbling-window-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sowood Farmhouse, Sowood Lane
OS grid reference
SE 284 190
Coordinates
53.66709, -1.57049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sowood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1689, with alterations from the 19th century. It is built of coursed squared stone with quoins and has a stone slate roof. The building is two stories high with a three-bay front. The central doorway is quoined and features a Tudor-arched lintel with sunk spandrels. Above the door, raised letters read "FM (F. Flackender) 1689". The windows include 4-pane 19th-century sashes in plain surrounds, except for the left window on the ground floor, which is a 4-light double-chamfered window with the mullions removed. There is a central rendered stack and a rear outshut. On the first floor left return, there is one blocked double-chamfered 2-light window. Inside, there is timber framing between the house and the outshut.

Local climate

Sowood Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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