Leighton Furnace Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Barn.
Leighton Furnace Barn
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-screen-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Leighton Furnace Barn, Brackenthwaite Road, the Yealands
- OS grid reference
- SD 484 778
- Coordinates
- 54.1935, -2.79129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leighton Furnace Barn is believed to be the 'Great Coal House' of Leighton Furnace, which opened in 1718. The barn is constructed of limestone rubble and has a slate roof. The west wall is blank, featuring two blocked first-floor doorways. The east wall contains several openings with plain reveals, including a small window, a door that has been converted into a shippon, a wide opening leading to a modern implement store with a wooden lintel and some brick dressings, and a wide barn entrance with a segmental head. The north gable has a wide opening with a wooden lintel, while the south gable, located at the upper end of the slope, has a first-floor pitching hole with a wooden lintel. Inside, the roof trusses appear to have hardwood principals and softwood ties. The barn seems to be contemporary with the nearby ruined ore store and is comparable to the Great Coal House at Duddon Furnace, although it is in a far better state of preservation.
Local climate
Leighton Furnace Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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