Beech Hill Farm Including Wall to Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Farmhouse.

Beech Hill Farm Including Wall to Street

WRENN ID
wild-paling-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Beech Hill Farm Including Wall to Street, 110, Beech Hill Lane
OS grid reference
SD 564 071
Coordinates
53.55877, -2.65824
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beech Hill Farm, now a house, is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 17th century and has undergone significant alterations. It features scored render painted white and a slate roof. The building has a single-depth, three-bay plan with a parallel one-bay range on the north side.

The exterior displays a facade with two gabled bays; the left bay is smaller and set back. The ground floor has enlarged windows with four and five lights, while the first floor has a slightly enlarged three-light window on the left and a four-light window on the right with chamfered mullions. All these windows, except the right ground floor window, have hood-moulds. There is a ridge chimney on the left range and a narrow side-wall chimney on the right-hand range. The right-hand return side has three-light chamfered mullion windows at the first floor of the first bay and on both floors of the second bay, although other features have been altered.

Inside, the first bay of the larger portion contains two large chamfered lateral beams and original chamfered joists of square section. The second bay has one similar beam and similar joists, while the smaller portion has two replacement beams. There is a timber-framed partition between the bays with an exposed tie-beam, and a heavy studded plank door with elaborate strap hinges below the tie-beam, although this doorway is now blocked to the rear. The first bay also features a fine chamber fireplace with a moulded surround and a deep triangular lintel. Other interior elements have been altered.

Additionally, there is a wall to the street made of coursed sandstone rubble, approximately one meter high, with rounded coping and a wide gateway to the yard on the right-hand side of the house.

Local climate

Beech Hill Farm Including Wall to Street 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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