Workhouse Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Workhouse, farmhouse.
Workhouse Farm
- WRENN ID
- solemn-trefoil-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Workhouse, farmhouse
- Address
- Workhouse Farm, Blackburn Road, Padiham
- OS grid reference
- SD 780 333
- Coordinates
- 53.79632, -2.33533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Workhouse Farm is a workhouse and associated farmhouse, likely built in the early 19th century, which has been altered and is mostly unoccupied as of 1984. The structure is made of sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs. The farmhouse features a ridge chimney and gable chimneys, while the attached barn has gable coping with a finial at the north end. The former workhouse range includes a single chimney cowl on the ridge.
The complex is L-shaped, with the farmhouse gabled to the road on a north-south axis. It includes a linking cartshed and barn in the same range, with the former workhouse range connected at a right angle to the west side of the barn. The workhouse is a single-depth, low two-storey building made of random rubble, measuring five bays in length. It has a single-storey lean-to at the west end, with the fifth bay lofted and accessible via a flight of external steps leading to a raised doorway, along with another doorway below. The remaining bays have rectangular windows, some featuring glazing bars, while others are variously altered or damaged. At the east end, there is a projecting porch with wagon doors leading to the barn.
The interior of the workhouse has been gutted, but a small fireplace remains at the first-floor level of the partition wall between the fourth and fifth bays. The barn at the south end of the east range consists of three bays and two higher storeys, with its formerly colonnaded left corner now filled in. Connecting the left gable wall of the barn to the farmhouse is a small, set-back two-storey cartshed with an open segmental arch spanning the full width and a window at the first floor. The farmhouse itself has three bays and two storeys, featuring two plain doorways and three windows on each floor, mostly sashed but damaged, except for the coupled four-pane sashes in the centre of the ground floor. The rear of the farmhouse has four four-pane sashes on each floor.
This building is an unusual survival of a parish workhouse that predates the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
Local climate
Workhouse Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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