Brookside Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brookside Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-cornice-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Makerfield MP: Andy Burnham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brookside Farmhouse, Bickershaw Lane, WN2 5TA
- OS grid reference
- SD 613 023
- Coordinates
- 53.51604, -2.5839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brookside Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1716, as indicated by the datestone. It is constructed of painted brick and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with the third bay being gabled. The first floor displays hearts in raised brickwork, and the datestone is located on the gable. The windows include casements, with the first bay on the ground floor and the third bay on the first floor having segmental heads. The first bay on the first floor features a three-light horizontally sliding sash window. There is a stack at the front of the roof ridge, and the entrance has a segmental head with a 20th-century door. Inside, there is a room with two moulded beams.
Local climate
Brookside 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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