Town Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1966. House.
Town Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-roof-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Town Farmhouse, 17, Orford Close
- OS grid reference
- SJ 603 971
- Coordinates
- 53.46993, -2.59889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Farmhouse is a house dated 1740, as indicated by the inscription "EPH 1740" on a tablet above the door. It is built of Flemish bond brick and has a slate roof. The house has a three-unit, two-storey layout. The door, located between the first and second bays, features a semi-circular arch above a recessed brick panel. Each floor includes two, three, and three-light horizontally sliding casement windows, with cambered brick arches on the ground floor and segmental arches on the first floor. There are three ridge chimney stacks, and the sides of the building are rendered. Inside, the property is said to have fielded six-panel doors with H hinges, as well as a staircase with turned balusters, a closed string, and square newels.
Local climate
Town Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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