35, Grape Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Farmhouse.

35, Grape Lane

WRENN ID
winter-gable-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
35, Grape Lane, Croston
OS grid reference
SD 492 182
Coordinates
53.65835, -2.76885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 35 Grape Lane is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations. It features a cruck frame with handmade brick cladding, rendered, and a thatched roof with brick gable chimneys. The building has three bays, with modern extensions added to the rear and the right end. The gable faces the road. It is one and a half storeys high, with a door located at the left end, four 3-light casements on the ground floor, and dormer casements with 2 and 4 lights in the eaves.

Inside, there are two full cruck trusses. The first truss has a large cambered tie-beam (partly severed), wattle-and-daub infilling, a central post with mortices for the lintels of two doors, and windbracing. The second truss is similar but features angle struts, small dorsals, lacks windbracing, and has punched wedge-shaped carpenter's marks. The rear wall, at the junction with the addition, includes a timber wallplate with vacant housing for posts and wattling, indicating that the house was once entirely timber-framed.

Local climate

35, Grape Lane 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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