Aughton House and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House and barn.

Aughton House and Adjoining Barns

WRENN ID
vacant-soffit-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1967
Type
House and barn
OS grid reference
SD 550 672
Coordinates
54.09911, -2.68885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Aughton House is a house that dates back to the 17th century, located on Main Street in Halton-with-Aughton. It is built from slobbered sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The house consists of two units with a central entrance and end stacks, standing two storeys tall with an attic. To the left of the porch, there is a modern casement window with a plain surround. To the right, a three-light window has square mullions. On the first floor, there is a two-light window with a square mullion to the left and a similar window to the right, although the mullion has been removed from that one. The gabled porch includes a doorway in the left return wall and a window with plain reveals in the right wall. At the rear, the house features a rebated and chamfered window surround on the first floor, stone gutter corbels, and a later wing. Inside, there are upper crucks in the attic.

Adjoining the house to the north-east is a barn that shares the same construction style and has a continuous roof. This barn features two wide segmental-arched openings, with the left opening now partly blocked to create a smaller doorway. A gable chimney and a blocked window at the rear suggest that the barn may have had a domestic use in the past. There is also a later barn that adjoins the house to the south-west, which has a lower slate roof with gable coping and a kneeler. The wide central entrance under a segmental arch is now partly blocked to form a narrower doorway, and there is a small pitching door under the eaves to the left.

Local climate

Aughton House and Adjoining Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 52% 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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