Wrayton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Wrayton Farmhouse

WRENN ID
floating-kitchen-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wrayton Farmhouse, Melling-With-Wrayton, LA6 2QU
OS grid reference
SD 610 721
Coordinates
54.14413, -2.59717
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wrayton Farmhouse is a late 18th-century house located in Wrayton. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a slate roof. The building is three storeys high with four bays, featuring chamfered quoins. The windows have plain stone surrounds and are sash windows with glazing bars, except for those on the ground floor, which are sash windows without glazing bars. The door is situated in the third bay and is framed by a Tuscan stone doorcase topped with a triangular pediment. There are two chimneys on each gable. Inside, the right-hand front room contains a built-in cupboard with a round head and doors featuring raised and fielded panels. The staircase has a closed string, slim turned newels and balusters, and a ramped handrail.

Local climate

Wrayton Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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