37, Barn Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1989. A Late C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
37, Barn Lane
- WRENN ID
- woven-gateway-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- 37, Barn Lane, WA3 3NU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 599 977
- Coordinates
- 53.47517, -2.60445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 37 Barn Lane is a house dating from the late 17th century, which incorporates an earlier timber-framed structure, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The building features brick cladding over timber framing and has a stone slate gable-end roof. The layout includes a hall and a west wing, with a rear outshut that was rebuilt in the 19th century but contains a late 17th-century staircase. The wing is timber framed with jowelled posts and was brick clad in the late 17th century, while the hall range appears to be entirely from the late 17th century. A rear service wing was added in the later 19th century.
The house is two storeys high. The roadstone elevation has two first-floor windows with brick window arches and 12-pane Yorkshire sashes, along with two small ground-floor windows and an entrance into the outshut. The service wing is set back and has outside stairs leading to the upper floor. The south elevation features the end wall of the cross wing to the west, which has one 19th-century casement window on each floor. The position of the southeast jowelled post is visible where the brickwork is disturbed. The hall range also has one 19th-century casement window on each floor, while the rear (west) side has 19th-century casement windows and a 20th-century chimney stack.
Inside, the wing has jowelled corner posts, with one clearly visible and the other concealed, and a side purlin roof. The hall range features a ceiling beam that is chamfered, along with hollow step stairs. A change in ceiling level next to the cross-wing wall may indicate the position of a former smoke bay. At the rear, there is a late 19th-century dog-leg staircase with shaped pendants and caps on the newels, and stick balusters that have been renewed.
Local climate
37, Barn Lane 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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