Gillibrand Hall Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1966. A Early Modern Barn.
Gillibrand Hall Barn
- WRENN ID
- gilded-string-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1966
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Gillibrand Hall Barn, Mountbatten Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 573 168
- Coordinates
- 53.64672, -2.64628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gillibrand Hall Barn is a 17th-century barn, dated 1669, that has been converted into a workshop with a dwelling in the loft. The building is constructed from dressed sandstone and features a roof made of stone slates and slates. It has a rectangular plan consisting of five bays, with the fifth bay rising to 2½ storeys. The barn has a chamfered plinth and ventilation slits that are chamfered and located on five levels, which are now glazed.
On the left gable, there are similar ventilation slits and a panel inscribed with "I.G.1669" alongside a crossed swords device. The second bay contains opposed segmental-arched wagon doors with moulded jambs, with the front doors protected by a canopy on short cheeks and the back doors flanked by stepped buttresses. To the right of the wagon doorway, there is a door with moulded jambs and a lintel.
External solid stone steps, featuring a parapet and landing, ascend along the front wall to a similar door located on the first floor of the fifth bay. Beneath the landing of these steps, which is supported by a chamfered stone pillar, is another door with "WA" incised on the lintel. This end of the building has windows with chamfered reveals, moulded stone mullions, and hoodmoulds: the ground floor has two-light windows, while the first floor has four-light windows. The right gable features similar windows with three and two lights at ground level, and six lights on the first floor, along with five lights at the attic level. Both first-floor windows and the ground floor gable windows are protected by stone-slated pentices.
Inside, the barn boasts two moulded two-centred stone arches that support chamfered purlins, while the fifth bay has chamfered beams on both floors. This structure is a well-preserved and elaborate example of a combined barn and dwelling.
Local climate
Gillibrand Hall 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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