Barn Circa 20 Metres North of Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Barn.
Barn Circa 20 Metres North of Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-gable-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 652 240
- Coordinates
- 53.71208, -2.52816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 20 metres north of Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse, is likely from the 17th century and has later additions, including three coach houses. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof. The barn consists of six bays, with the coach houses positioned at the front of the 4th, 5th, and 6th bays, and lean-to cowsheds at the rear.
The third bay has a wagon doorway with a canopy extending to the left and an outshut to the right, which includes a sliding bulldoor and a rounded corner. This outshut contains three wagon doorways, all of which have been reduced in width, and feature exceptionally large lintels. The first lintel, which covers two doorways, measures approximately 7 metres long but is now cracked. These doorways are said to have served coaches on the old road from Manchester to Clitheroe. The third doorway has several cupboard recesses in the inner wall, which were used for maintenance.
At the right end of the barn, there are two stables that retain their original stalls and tackle pegs in the beams. Inside, the roof features fishbone-strutted kingpost trusses, with the original trusses located to the right of the threshing bay, while others have been renewed. The barn is entirely lofted except for the threshing bay.
Local climate
Barn Circa 20 Metres North of Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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