Brimmicroft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1967. Farmhouse.
Brimmicroft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-spindle-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brimmicroft Farmhouse, Bolton Road, Withnell
- OS grid reference
- SD 625 246
- Coordinates
- 53.71705, -2.56905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brimmicroft Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1710 on the lintel, although it is likely older, with a porch added at that date. The building has been recently renovated and is primarily constructed of sandstone random rubble with quoins and a stone slate roof. It features a three-bay baffle-entry plan with an added porch aligned with the ridge chimney at the junction of the first and second bays, as well as an added rear outshut to the left end.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a wide two-storey gabled porch made of squared sandstone. The porch has a doorway offset to the right, which is surrounded by a moulded frame and topped with a shaped lintel inscribed with "H ; T E 17 10". All windows now have concrete surrounds and mullions that mimic 17th-century double-chamfered windows. The first floor of the porch has three lights, while the ground floor has three sets of three lights and two sets of two lights above. The left gable features three and four lights at the ground floor and one set of three lights above, while the right gable has four lights at the ground floor and three lights above. At the rear, there are two sets of three lights at the ground floor and one set of two lights above.
Inside, the housepart in the middle bay is believed to contain an inglenook with a shouldered stone heck and a stop-chamfered bressummer, along with a two-light firewindow (now internal) and two large longitudinal beams.
Local climate
Brimmicroft Farmhouse 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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