Rockyfold Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Farmhouse.
Rockyfold Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-storey-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rockyfold Farmhouse, Michaelchurch Escley
- OS grid reference
- SO 316 336
- Coordinates
- 51.99735, -2.99743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockyfold Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 17th century and has been altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of thinly coursed rubble and features a roof made of asbestos slate, corrugated iron, and stone slate. The gable ends have 20th-century brick chimneys. The building has an L-plan layout, resembling a longhouse. It includes a two-bay cross-wing at the south end of a two-bay north/south range, which extends northward as a byre (one bay) and includes a later 19th-century cow house and loft (also one bay). There is a 20th-century lean-to in the re-entrant angle and part of the south flank of the cross-wing.
On the east elevation, there is a wide gable to the left with a rebuilt chimney, a small stair-light to the left, and a wider window to the right that was formerly a five-light mullioned window. A raking-top dormer is present in the return. The north/south range has a 20th-century rebuilt wall, a raking-top dormer, and a three-light casement window on the ground floor with a concrete lintel, along with a 20th-century gabled porch to the right. The cow-byre extension, which has a tin roof, features a blocked doorway with a slab-hood and a present door to the right, along with a 20th-century window with a concrete lintel. The right-hand bay, which has a stone slate roof, is slightly taller and includes a loft door. The south flank has a depressed two-centred arch head doorway at the west end, and there is another doorway at the west entrance to the cow byre, which is now obscured by later buildings.
Inside, there is one pair of cruck blades that are truncated below collar level in the byre, just north of its junction with the domestic part. A plank and muntin screen formerly divided the two bays of the cross-wing. There are diamond section mullion slots in the window opening at first floor level between the two byres, as well as similar slots in the opening for a four-light window in the ground floor west wall of the south byre.
Local climate
Rockyfold Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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