Sheeplea House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1995. Farmhouse.

Sheeplea House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
old-spindle-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sheeplea House Farmhouse, Birkin Lane, Ashover
OS grid reference
SK 348 652
Coordinates
53.18357, -1.48046
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sheeplea House Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that has undergone some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed from regularly coursed gritstone with ashlar dressings, featuring quoins, coped gables with plain kneelers, gable ashlar stacks, and a stone slated roof. The house is designed in an L-shape, with the south elevation comprising two storeys and three bays. The central doorway is framed by a massive surround and lintel, leading to a four-panel door with the upper two panels glazed. On either side of the doorway are stacked two-light flush-mullioned windows, which have 20th-century casement frames without glazing bars. The ground-floor windows are taller than those on the first floor. The west gable includes an 18th-century doorway at the north-west corner, which has a glazed opening, and an inserted two-light window above. A gabled crosswing extends to the north, featuring a massive door surround at the junction of the two ranges, along with one unaltered two-light flush-mullioned window on the first floor.

Local climate

Sheeplea House Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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