White Barn Door Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Farmhouse.

White Barn Door Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-gable-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White Barn Door Farmhouse, Black Moor Road, Mawdesley
OS grid reference
SD 482 148
Coordinates
53.62798, -2.78343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Barn Door Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1706 on the porch and has been altered over time. It features a stone plinth with walls made of handmade brick and stone quoins, finished with modern brick and a tiled roof. The building has a two-bay end-baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys high, with the eaves likely raised.

At the left end, there is a two-storey gabled porch that has a board door offset to the left, with a decorated datestone above it inscribed with the letters H A. To the right of the porch, the second bay slightly projects forward and contains a blocked doorway with a splayed stone lintel. The rest of the facade has two 19th-century three-light casements on each floor, with the ground floor windows featuring splayed stone heads. There is a small brick lean-to at the left end, while a 19th-century addition at the right end is not included in the listing.

Inside, the farmhouse has been altered, but each bay retains two large chamfered beams. The beams in the first bay, which is the housepart, have cyma stops, and the exposed joists are similarly decorated. In the housepart, the stopped ends of the beams are tenoned into a lateral beam in front of the current chimney stack, which may have been part of an inglenook.

Local climate

White Barn Door 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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