Barrett's House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1967. Farmhouse.
Barrett's House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- kindled-crypt-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Barrett's House Farmhouse, Back Lane East, Mawdesley
- OS grid reference
- SD 504 142
- Coordinates
- 53.62256, -2.7511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barrett's House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1695, located on Mawdesley Back Lane East. The building features mostly handmade brick on a stone plinth, with a crosswing made of sandstone rubble, all accented by stone quoins. It has a stone slate roof with projected eaves, although part of the rear is felted. The layout is almost H-shaped, consisting of a 2-bay main range with a projected wing on the second bay and a 2-bay crosswing at the left end. The farmhouse is two storeys high.
The centre of the main range has a dogtoothed band at the first floor, a door at the left end, and a vertical rectangular 2-light sliding sash window on each floor, with the lower window featuring a gauged brick head. The gable of the right wing has a similar window on each floor, each with a short band above. Above the upper window, there is a square datestone inscribed with the initials T T in relief. The re-entrant area has a first-floor window like the others, and the 1695 wall features an extruded brick chimney stack. The gable of the left wing has a sliding sash window on each floor, with three lights below and two lights above. There is a ridge chimney on each part of the building.
The rear of the farmhouse has been altered, with an added lean-to in the angle, but it retains a low 3-light sliding sash window at the first floor. Inside, there is a very thick junction wall to the left wing, and the beams on both floors of the main range have stopped quarter-round moulding, while one beam in the crosswing is ovolo-moulded.
Local climate
Barrett's House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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