Bank House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Bank House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fossil-wattle-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bank House Farmhouse, Thurnham
- OS grid reference
- SD 430 530
- Coordinates
- 53.97066, -2.86916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank House Farmhouse is a house built in 1690, with some alterations. It is constructed from pebbledashed sandstone and features a steep slate roof. The building has a three-cell lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall with three bays. The windows have plain reveals, and there is a door with plain reveals located between the second and third bays. The gables are topped with copings and footstones. There are chimneys on the left-hand gable and aligned with the door. At the rear of the house, the windows also have plain reveals, except for one on the ground floor which has a chamfered surround. Inside, the middle room includes a firehood bressumer and two chamfered axial main joists. There is a spice cupboard in the back wall of the hearth, which has a door inscribed with 'TFE 1690'. The northern room features a small stone fireplace typical of the 18th century, complete with a false fluted keystone.
Local climate
Bank House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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