Barn to East of Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Barn.
Barn to East of Mount Pleasant Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- inner-pavement-foxglove
- 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
- Barn to East of Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Mount Pleasant Lane, Bolton-Le-Sands
- OS grid reference
- SD 491 689
- Coordinates
- 54.1139, -2.77972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn located to the east of Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a bank barn built in 1836. It is constructed from rubble with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The barn has two storeys on the west side, which includes shippons and a cart store. The barn floor is accessed from a higher ground level at the east.
The openings in the barn have chamfered surrounds and 4-centred heads. On the west wall, to the right of centre, there is a wide cart entrance with a threshing door above it. To the left of this entrance are three shippon doors, with the outer two being blocked, as well as a window. On the right side, there is a blocked door, a window, and another door.
Centrally located on the first floor is a moulded plaque featuring a triangular head and hood mould with cusps, displaying a coat of arms and the date '1836'. The gables of the barn have copings and kneelers, each topped with a finial at the apex. Both gables include ventilation slits and a moulded cusped owl hole. The east wall features a wide entrance with a 4-centred head.
Local climate
Barn to East of Mount Pleasant Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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