Barn at Nightingale's Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Barn.

Barn at Nightingale's Farm

WRENN ID
south-spindle-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1984
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Nightingale's Farm, Rawlinson Lane, Heath Charnock
OS grid reference
SD 595 140
Coordinates
53.6217, -2.61294
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Nightingale's Farm, dated 1705, is currently in a derelict state. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan with five bays, flanked by modern extensions made of concrete blocks. The front (east) side includes a former wagon doorway at the center, flanked by short cheeks with relief lettering: "N" on the left and "1" on the right, with part of the left letter obscured. There are breathers on two levels, along with modern windows inserted at the ground floor and a square window at the first floor of the fifth bay.

On the right (north) gable wall, there are three ground floor doorways with large rectangular lintels; the central doorway features relief lettering "N" and has a square pitching door above it. To the right of this doorway, there is a small chamfered round-headed opening on the first floor, dated "1705". The left gable wall has two square stone mullioned windows that are missing their mullions, and at the first floor, there are three square openings, with the middle one set higher than the others.

The rear (west) wall has a large lintel in the first bay that once led to a double doorway, which is partially filled with ashlar masonry. The center of this wall features an altered wagon doorway, and in the fifth bay at the first floor level, there is a two-light stone mullioned window that is also lacking its mullion. Inside, the barn retains original roof trusses with raking struts and collars.

Local climate

Barn at Nightingale's Farm 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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