Cross Swords Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Farmhouse.
Cross Swords Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-gateway-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cross Swords Farmhouse, Moor Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 574 160
- Coordinates
- 53.63957, -2.64471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Swords Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1845. It is built of dressed stone and features a stone slate roof with gable copings and gable chimneys. The building has a double pile, two bay plan and stands two storeys high. There is a large, slightly projecting rectangular doorcase with a cornice, which is offset slightly to the left of centre. Each floor has two windows, all with plain sills, jambs, and heads, though the glazing has been altered. In the centre of the first floor, there is a large shield with crossed swords, which is said to represent the arms of the Gillibrand family. The left side wall displays the date "1845" at the first floor level.
Local climate
Cross Swords Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% 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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