Farnah House is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Farnah House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-truss-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Farnah House, Wirksworth Road, Duffield
- OS grid reference
- SK 329 430
- Coordinates
- 52.98387, -1.51069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farnah House is an early 19th-century farmhouse located on the south side of Wirksworth Road in Duffield. The building is constructed of red brick and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with two brick ridge stacks. It has a moulded eaves cornice and stands two storeys tall. The broad three-bay south elevation includes a central doorway with a pedimented Tuscan Doric doorcase. The entrance is comprised of half-glazed 19th-century double doors, which are flanked on either side by glazing bar sashes set beneath chanelled stone lintels with stepped keyblocks. Above, there are three smaller glazing sashes.
Local climate
Farnah House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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