Lower Courses Farmhouse and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1967. Farmhouse, barn.
Lower Courses Farmhouse and Barn
- WRENN ID
- last-niche-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Lower Courses Farmhouse and Barn, Crossings Road, Chapel-En-Le-Frith
- OS grid reference
- SK 046 811
- Coordinates
- 53.32767, -1.93098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Courses Farmhouse and Barn is a farmhouse with an attached barn, dating from the 17th century, with alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed gritstone rubble, featuring gritstone dressings and quoins, and has a stone slate roof with a single stone ridge stack. It is two storeys tall, plus attics, and has an L-plan layout, with a single bay main elevation, while the barn and part of the house form the other range.
On the south elevation, there is a western gabled bay that contains a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, which was formerly a 6-light window. To the east of this window, there is a plank door with a continuous dripmould above it. Above the door, there is a similar window that is now a 3-light window but was originally a 5-light window. In the gable above, there is a 2-light window of the same style. The fenestration is primarily from the 20th century, with some small paned casements and others with single panes. Recessed to the east is a 20th-century porch with a 20th-century casement window above it. Further east, the barn features a single door and an adjacent window.
The east elevation has a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, which was formerly a 5-light window, with a continuous dripmould above it. Above this, there is a similar window that was originally a 4-light window. The western elevation has four 18th-century flush mullion windows. Inside, the building features ovolo moulded beams, a large voussoired arched fireplace, and a heavily moulded beam over a large ground floor window.
Local climate
Lower Courses Farmhouse and Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 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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