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

Syd Brook Lane Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stark-pillar-khaki
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
Syd Brook Lane Farmhouse, Mawdesley
OS grid reference
SD 503 167
Coordinates
53.64488, -2.75319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Syd Brook Lane Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1709 on the east gable, with parts that may be older. It has been altered over time and is constructed of handmade brick with stone quoins and some coursed sandstone, resting on a plinth of coursed sandstone, topped with a slate roof. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of three bays with a rear wing and a short outshut at the front of the first bay, which is assumed to be the south side.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with the south front featuring three large three-light windows on each floor and a small two-light window in the outshut. The ground floor windows have segmental heads. There is no visible door, but a chimney stack is located on the ridge at the junction of the second and third bays. The left gable is rendered and has one window on each floor, while the right gable is made of stone and has a flight of external steps leading to a loft door, with a datestone above it marked with the letter "F". The rear of the building includes a segmental-headed two-light window in the third bay and a board door marked "I E 1709" next to the wing. The wing itself features a three-light casement window on each floor, with the lower window having a segmental head, and a gable chimney. All windows are fitted with horizontal-rectangular panes.

Inside, the rear wing contains a large cambered hearth bressummer that extends the full width of the wing, and the room above has a partition close to this line, which may indicate the remains of a smoke bay; otherwise, the interior has been altered.

Local climate

Syd Brook Lane Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 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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