The Old Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1963. Barn.
The Old Barn
- WRENN ID
- peeling-groin-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1963
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Old Barn, Chapeltown Road, North Turton
- OS grid reference
- SD 731 151
- Coordinates
- 53.63218, -2.40762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Barn is a large barn dating from 1697 that has been converted into a dwelling since it was first listed. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof, which now has a small chimney at the left end. The building has stone gable copings and kneelers topped with ball finials. It stands at two storeys high.
To the right of the center, there is a gabled porch with ball finials on the kneelers and at the apex. The round-headed entrance arch of the porch is now glazed and contains a door. The wall to the left of the porch has a shaped door lintel inscribed with the letters "I" and "C". Beyond this, there are three round-headed lancets marked "1697" at ground floor level, four narrow windows on the first floor, and various inserted windows.
To the right of the porch, there are two large inserted windows on each floor. The left gable wall features a continuous dripstone that steps over shaped lintels at each end and over a blocked two-light mullioned window in the center. At the first floor in the center, there is a blocked doorway with a shaped lintel and a hoodmould, flanked by two narrow windows. In the gable, there is a blocked owl hole. The rear wall has been significantly altered with the insertion of very large windows.
Local climate
The Old Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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