Giant's Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. Farmhouse.

Giant's Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
lapsed-glass-ridge
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1966
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Giant's Hall Farmhouse, Standish Wood Lane
OS grid reference
SD 566 077
Coordinates
53.56468, -2.6555
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Giant's Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed farmhouse dating from 1675, as indicated by the datestone "WLP/1675". The building features dressed stone with a reconstituted stone roof and consists of two storeys with three bays. The first bay is lower and is an extension, while the third bay projects forward under a gable. The farmhouse has a base and quoins, and its double-chamfered-mullioned windows have label moulds. The ground floor includes 2:5:4-light windows, and the first floor has 2:6:4-light windows, with a three-light attic window in the third bay. There are two brick gable-end stacks and a lateral stack on the right return. The rear of the building features mullioned windows and a 20th-century lean-to projection at the end bay.

Inside, the farmhouse has timber-framed partition walls and a large fireplace with an ovolo moulded bressumer on timber posts, which is open to a recess with a window. The original stair door is now blocked. The third bay contains angle fireplaces, including a Tudor-headed stone fireplace on the first floor, with additional fireplaces likely present. Ovolo moulded beams are also found throughout. At the foot of the stair, there is a six-panel door with butterfly hinges. The extension includes a large fireplace with a bressumer and chamfered beams featuring stepped stops.

Local climate

Giant's Hall Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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