Barn and Shippon to North-West of Hawkhurst Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Barn, shippon.
Barn and Shippon to North-West of Hawkhurst Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-thatch-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Barn, shippon
- Address
- Barn and Shippon to North-West of Hawkhurst Farmhouse, Jennet's Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 676 981
- Coordinates
- 53.47943, -2.48921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn and shippon located to the north-west of Hawkhurst Farmhouse date from the early 18th century and 19th century. They are constructed from English garden wall bond brick and feature a slate and metal roof. The structure includes a lower three-bay shippon on the left, which is connected to the barn by a 19th-century extension. The barn has opposing cart entries with cheek walls and tiers of honeycomb vents on each side. Later additions include buttresses. Inside the barn, there are inclined strut tie-beam roof trusses. The shippon has three doors.
Local climate
Barn and Shippon to North-West of Hawkhurst 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 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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