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

Wilcocks Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-dormer-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wilcocks Farmhouse, Dean Head Lane, Rivington
OS grid reference
SD 632 155
Coordinates
53.63529, -2.55775
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wilcocks Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1670, as indicated on the lintel of the door. It has been altered and extended in the 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a tiled roof with two stone chimneys. It has a two-bay end-baffle-entry plan, with an added third bay to the right.

The farmhouse is two storeys high. On the right-hand end of the second bay, aligned with the ridge chimney, there is a doorway with a chamfered surround and a flat triangular head. The lintel above the door is lettered in relief. To the left of the doorway, there is a chamfered flush mullion window that was originally a five-light window from 1670 but is now missing the first and fourth mullions. The first bay contains a formerly two-light window that is now lacking its mullion, and between these windows is a small blocked round-headed window with a triangular lintel, which is said to have been a toll window. On the first floor, there are three horizontal rectangular three-light casements. The added bay to the right has a similar window on the first floor and an altered vertical rectangular window below it.

At the rear of the farmhouse, there are a two-light and a three-light mullion window on the ground floor; the first is blocked, while the second has one blocked light and the others have been altered to casements. The interior has been altered, except for a surviving heck wall in the housepart and a wattle-and-daub partition in the first bay, which is now concealed.

Local climate

Wilcocks Farmhouse 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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