Morleys Hall Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1993. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Morleys Hall Barn
- WRENN ID
- spare-mantel-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1993
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Morleys Hall Barn, Morleys Lane, M29 7EW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 690 992
- Coordinates
- 53.48927, -2.46839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morley's Hall Barn is a farm outbuilding that includes a threshing barn, an attached byre with an overloft, and a lower ancillary range to the south. It was built in the early 19th century, with some near-contemporary additions and 20th-century alterations. The barn is constructed of red brick, laid in English garden wall bond, and features a slated roof with diminishing courses.
The west elevation consists of four bays across two storeys, with the southern bay being an addition. There is a recessed entry bay in the two-storey section, which has a brick panel above boarded, ledged, and braced double doors that include a segmental relieving arch. On either side of the doorway are decorative ventilation panels with a reel pattern. The added two-storey bay to the south has a single doorway and a taking-in door above. There is also a half-width single bay lean-to against the south gable, and behind it is a three-bay ancillary range that features two ground floor doorways and a flight of stone steps leading to a first-floor doorway at the south end, which also has a full-height lean-to against the south gable.
Inside the two-storey range, there are massive roof trusses that combine king and queen post construction, with the king posts being double-shouldered to support two tiers of diagonal braces. These trusses support lapped double purlins and a ridge purlin. Overall, Morley's Hall Barn is an exceptionally large and well-detailed example of an early 19th-century threshing barn.
Local climate
Morleys Hall Barn 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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