Hodgsons Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Barn.

Hodgsons Barn

WRENN ID
dark-pedestal-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1967
Type
Barn
Address
Hodgsons Barn, 70, Town Road, Croston, PR26 9RB
OS grid reference
SD 490 184
Coordinates
53.66016, -2.77306
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hodgsons Barn is a former barn, likely built around 1700, that has undergone alterations. It is constructed of handmade brick and features a slate roof. The barn has two bays and two storeys, with garage doors at the right-hand end, a blocked door to the left, and a loading door for the loft above. There is a long brick label over the blocked opening above the garage doors. The left gable is rendered. This building is listed for its group value only.

Local climate

Hodgsons Barn 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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