Lower House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-rafter-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West MP: Phil Brickell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower House Farmhouse, Chorley New Road, Horwich, BL6 5NJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 643 103
- Coordinates
- 53.58827, -2.54013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from dressed stone with quoins and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays, with the fourth bay being taller than the others. On the ground floor, there are single-chamfered-mullioned windows with label moulds, although the first-floor windows have lost two of their mullions. The fourth bay features a 20th-century casement window. The first-floor windows are casements, with the one in the fourth bay being small-paned. The entrance is marked by a large lintel and a label mould. The right side of the building has a stone staircase leading to a first-floor entrance. The farmhouse has gable-end and cross-axial stacks. At the rear, there is an outshut beneath a cat-slide roof and a three-light window. Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered beams, including one with a forked end, which is likely a bressumer.
Local climate
Lower House 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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