Anderton House is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Anderton House
- WRENN ID
- tall-ember-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Anderton House, Blackleach Lane, Woodplumpton
- OS grid reference
- SD 481 332
- Coordinates
- 53.7933, -2.78821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anderton House is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century that has been altered over time. It features a cruck frame and is clad in sandstone rubble, with the lower level rendered and whitewashed. The roof is steeply pitched and made of corrugated iron, with boxed eaves and brick gable chimneys. The building has an end-baffle-entry plan with three bays, where the left-end bay was likely used as a shippon or stable in the past.
The east front has a board door near the right end, protected by a wooden porch, and another door at the first bay. There are three ground floor windows, consisting of three, two, and three lights, all with wooden mullions and glazing bars but of varying sizes, with the lower window on the left and the higher one on the right. Gabled dormers above the second and third bays contain similar two-light windows. The right gable, which has been rebuilt in brick, features a two-light sliding sash window in the loft.
At the rear, there is a central doorway with a wooden porch similar to the front, flanked by two small square fixed windows with nine panes each, showing some remains of labels. The first bay at the rear has been rebuilt in brick. Inside, there is a full cruck truss at the junction of the second and third bays, although details are concealed. The housepart in the third bay includes an inglenook with a stop-chamfered bressummer and two similarly decorated beams.
Local climate
Anderton House 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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