Lower Bencock Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Lower Bencock Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-stone-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Bencock Farmhouse, Carr Lane, Pleasington
- OS grid reference
- SD 652 290
- Coordinates
- 53.75636, -2.5279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Bencock Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed from watershot sandstone blocks with quoins and is whitewashed. It features a tiled roof with a brick chimney at the left gable and a later chimney located in front of the ridge at the right end. The building has a double pile, two-bay plan and stands two storeys tall.
The doorway is offset to the left of centre and has plain jambs with a slightly projecting lintel. To the left of the doorway, there is one horizontal rectangular casement window with glazing bars on each floor. To the right of the doorway, there are three smaller but similar windows, which may have served as loomshop lights, along with a vertical rectangular window above, also with glazing bars. The entrance is now accessed through a single-storey porch at the left end.
On the right return wall, there is one small window, while the rear of the farmhouse has three ground floor windows. Inside, the ground floor back room extends the entire length of the house and is separated by a timber-framed partition wall.
Local climate
Lower Bencock Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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