Holland Fold Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Farmhouse with barn. 10 related planning applications.
Holland Fold Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- idle-plinth-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse with barn
- Address
- Holland Fold Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Long Lane, Heath Charnock, PR6 9EF
- OS grid reference
- SD 602 156
- Coordinates
- 53.63624, -2.6019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The farmhouse, dated 1680 internally, is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with large quoins. It has a stone slate roof with a brick chimney on the ridge and another chimney at the corner of the outshut, which is now blocked with a stone ball. The original two-bay baffle-entry plan includes an outshut to the rear of the second bay, and an attached barn under the same roof at the left end.
The farmhouse is two storeys and has an attic. A gabled porch in the centre features a round-headed arch with voussoirs that extend down as jamb stones, and a small two-light stone mullioned window above the arch. To the left of the porch is one stone mullioned window on each floor (five and four lights respectively). To the right, there is a three-light stone mullioned window with a straight dripstone, a two-light cross-glazed casement above, and a single light window above the porch. The right return wall has stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds: five and three lights at ground floor, four and two lights at the first floor, and three lights to the attic. The rear elevation includes a two-light sliding sash window above lean-to additions at ground floor.
The attached barn, at the left end, is partitioned from the house by a timber-framed wall with wattle-and-daub infill. It has a wagon doorway in the rear (east) wall, and a blocked doorway in the front wall, now replaced by a simple doorway.
Inside, the housepart of the second bay contains an inglenook fireplace with stone hecks, and a carved salt cupboard lettered in relief. The parlour in the first bay has a fireplace carved with the letters "T : : I," dated 1680, and features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Both rooms also have stop-moulded beams.
The building represents an unusually complete survival of a late 17th-century farmhouse.
Local climate
Holland Fold Farmhouse and Attached Barn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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