Overtown Grange Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Overtown Grange Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- keen-zinc-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Overtown Grange Farmhouse, the Balk, Walton
- OS grid reference
- SE 355 165
- Coordinates
- 53.64422, -1.46309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Overtown Grange Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of well-coursed punch-dressed stone and features a modern concrete tile roof. The building has two storeys and includes a single-storey rear outshut. It follows a three-cell plan, with service rooms located at the back of the first and second cells. The farmhouse has quoins and a continuous dripmould that rises over a former door.
All the windows have been altered, with lowered sills and most mullions removed, but they still have shallow double-chamfered surrounds with almost square reveals. From left to right, there is a former four-light window with a similar window above, a blocked window, and a window inserted in the original doorway, along with a four-light window on each floor. The gables are coped and feature kneelers, with brick stacks and an additional ridge stack at the junction of the first two cells.
At the rear, the original doorway is obscured by a later lean-to, with a small chamfered window above it. The outshut projects forward and has a three-light window to the left of two two-light windows, with additional windows inserted under the eaves. The left-hand return has a large external stone stack with shouldered offsets and a doorway to the right, which has a quoined lintel and tie-stone jambs. The gable is partly rendered at the first-floor level.
Inside, the first cell, which was formerly the kitchen, features a wide fireplace opening with a shallow segmental head that is blocked. The roof has a king-post structure.
Local climate
Overtown Grange Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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