Lord Nelson Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

Lord Nelson Inn

WRENN ID
inner-glass-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1967
Type
Public house
Address
Lord Nelson Inn, Sandy Lane, Clayton-Le-Woods
OS grid reference
SD 580 232
Coordinates
53.70413, -2.63651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lord Nelson Inn is a public house that was originally a farmhouse, dated 1668 on the porch. It has been altered and extended over time. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a slate roof. Its F-plan has been modified by a later addition between the wing and the porch.

The inn has two storeys and a prominent 2-storey gabled porch located at the junction of the second and third bays. This porch includes a chamfered segmental-arched doorway, with the lintel inscribed in relief with "1688". The first-floor window features two round-headed lights with moulded surrounds and remnants of a hoodmould. On the right side, there is an inserted window at ground floor and a small peep window at first floor, while altered windows are present on each floor to the right. To the left, a large gabled addition overlaps the corner of the porch, showcasing quoins, a 3-light flush-mullion window at the ground floor of the gable, and a sash window above. The gable of the left wing, which is set back and overlapped by the addition, has a similar flush-mullion window at the ground floor, with a dripmould above it that extends around the corner over a blocked doorway in the return wall. At the first floor, there is a 4-light double chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould.

Other features of lesser interest include altered chimneys. Inside, the layout has been changed to an open-plan design, featuring imitation quarter-round moulded beams. However, the wing retains a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window in what was once an external re-entrant wall, along with a cross-corner fireplace that has a large cambered stone lintel.

Local climate

Lord Nelson Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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