Amber Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Amber Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-corbel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- Bolsover MP: Natalie Fleet (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Amber Farmhouse, Shirland Road, Shirland and Higham, DE55 7LL
- OS grid reference
- SK 386 569
- Coordinates
- 53.10841, -1.42437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amber Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins. It features a shallow plinth and eaves cornice below low parapets. The roof is largely of C20 concrete tiles, with a slate roof to the north wing. Brick side wall stacks indicate fireplaces. The building is three storeys high, with recessed two-storey single-bay side wings. It has five bays in total. The central doorway is framed by a Doric doorcase topped with a broken pediment, above which is a semi-circular fanlight with traceried glazing over a glazed and panelled door. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with depressed arched tops featuring stepped radiating voussoirs in the central section. Side wings have similar sashes with skewback lintels and projecting keystones. Above, there are three similar sashes to those below in the central section. Single sashes matching those below are present in the side wings above the ground floor. The uppermost level in the central block features three glazing bar sashes with skewback lintels, incised voussoirs, and keystones.
Local climate
Amber Farmhouse 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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