Lea Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Lea Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- nether-brass-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lea Gate Farmhouse, BL2 4BG
- OS grid reference
- SD 738 121
- Coordinates
- 53.60498, -2.39714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lea Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building, originally constructed around 1700. It is made of dressed stone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has five bays, with the third and fourth bays projecting under a gable. There is a continuous drip mould above the ground floor and the third to fifth bays of the first floor, and the gables are coped with kneelers.
On the ground floor, there are double-chamfered-mullioned windows with a configuration of 2-:3-:1-:2-:3 lights, along with a single round-headed light to the right of the fourth bay. The first floor has a similar arrangement with a 3-:1-:2-:3-:3-light window, while the window in the fourth bay features an ogee head. The entrance to the recessed porch in the fourth bay has a decorated lintel and a round opening on the return. The building has a cross-axial stack and a gable-end stack, and the rear includes later extensions and some mullioned windows.
Inside, the original front door is located behind a 20th-century door and features wide boards and ledges. The interior also includes chamfered beams and a cambered bressummer. The dog-leg stair has turned balusters, a close string, and square newels.
Local climate
Lea Gate Farmhouse 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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