Barn Circa 75 Metres East of Littlewood Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Barn.

Barn Circa 75 Metres East of Littlewood Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
strange-stone-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SD 496 197
Coordinates
53.67208, -2.76427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 75 metres east of Littlewood Hall Farmhouse, dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and was altered in the 18th century. It features a plinth made of three courses of sandstone blocks and brick walls that replaced the original timber-framed walls, topped with a slate roof. The barn has five bays and tall wagon doors located in the middle bay. The north gable displays an exposed roof truss with a kingpost and three raked struts on each side.

Inside, some wallposts are visible beside the doorways, which have timber-framed panels above the lintels with straight bracing to the wallplate. Other wallposts are likely still present but encased in brick piers. The barn includes scarf-jointed wallplates, four collar trusses with angle struts, and tie-beams that have vacant mortices for former arch bracing. There are also two pairs of trenched purlins, with the lower ones windbraced from below. The visible structure of this barn is similar to that of the oxen house immediately to the west, suggesting they were built around the same time.

Local climate

Barn Circa 75 Metres East of Littlewood Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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