Holmes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Holmes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-span-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West MP: Phil Brickell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holmes Farmhouse, Blundell Lane, Blackrod, BL6 5LP
- OS grid reference
- SD 603 108
- Coordinates
- 53.5923, -2.60061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holmes Farmhouse is a 17th-century house, with a datestone reading "D I/1721". It is constructed of dressed stone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. The building has a base and a band over the ground floor, along with coped gables. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The windows are mostly flat-faced mullions, with the majority being three lights, although the first bay on the ground floor has a four-light window. The entrance is located at the left-hand end and features a gabled porch with a glazed outer door; the inner door has the datestone above it. There are two gable-end stacks, and the rear of the house is similar in appearance to the front.
Local climate
Holmes Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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