Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. A C16 Farmhouse.

Old Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stony-sill-tide
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Constituency
Blackburn MP: Mr Adnan Hussain (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1952
Type
Farmhouse
Period
C16
Address
Old Hall Farmhouse, Old Hall Lane, Pleasington
OS grid reference
SD 646 269
Coordinates
53.7379, -2.53812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Hall Farmhouse is a manor house dated 1587, which has been altered in the 19th century and is now used as a farmhouse. It is constructed from sandstone blocks and some old bricks, with the rear and right side rendered. The stone slate roof features one chimney on the ridge, another at the left end, and a large external chimney at the right end. The building has an H-plan layout, consisting of a 2-storey hall part flanked by 2-storey crosswings of unequal length.

On the left side, there is a 2-storey lean-to porch that includes a moulded Tudor-arched doorway. The lintel above the door is carved and lettered with the initials R T ( ) H (carved) I ( ) S H 1587, featuring three battleaxes in the center panel and horned animal heads between the letters on the flanking panels. The porch also has a splayed peephole in the side wall, a studded inner door, and a 2-light window on the first floor that lacks a mullion.

To the right of the porch, the hall part's wall is made of dressed stone blocks and features recessed windows on both floors, each with six large lights, chamfered mullions, a square king mullion, and a hoodmould, which is likely a 19th-century addition. The upper window is flanked by small round-headed windows. The wings have recessed stone mullioned windows, with the left wing having a six-light window on the first floor with a hoodmould and two lights in the apex. The right wing has a transomed window of 14 lights with hollowed mullions at ground floor, and above it, a 5-light window, with the wall above made of old bricks. The re-entrant area has a modern door, a blocked old opening at mid-level, and a blocked 4-light window above. Most of the windows have been altered in the 19th century, and the rear of the right wing has recently been rebuilt.

Inside, the interior has mostly been altered, but the right wing retains two chamfered beams supported by stone corbels and a rectangular fireplace with a very large lintel. The left wing features two cross-corner fireplaces, both of which have been modernized.

Local climate

Old Hall 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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