Clock House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Farmhouse.
Clock House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-porch-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Clock House Farmhouse, Wigan Road, Cuerden
- OS grid reference
- SD 559 238
- Coordinates
- 53.70892, -2.66884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clock House Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th century or earlier, although it has undergone significant alterations since then. The building features rendered brick walls and slate roofs, with a part-corbelled chimney on the right gable and another chimney on the ridge of the rear wing. It has a T-shaped plan consisting of two bays, along with a two-bay rear wing. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a single-storey porch that has a hipped roof, positioned slightly right of centre. There is a small stairlight to the left above a V-shaped feature, and all the windows have been altered. The rear wing has two lower storeys, a doorway aligned with the chimney stack, and altered windows.
Inside, the first-floor partition between the bays of the front section contains a very large arch-braced truss with a steeply cambered tie beam, which is supported at both ends by wall posts. The arched braces connecting to the beam are quite deep and have chamfered soffits. Rising from the apex of the truss is a post, possibly a kingpost. Within the arch, there is a timber doorcase that is retained on each side by a rail, which is likely a later addition.
Local climate
Clock House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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