Bottoms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. A Early Modern Farmhouse.

Bottoms Farmhouse

WRENN ID
long-attic-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Early Modern
Address
Bottoms Farmhouse, Cumberagh Lane, Whittingham
OS grid reference
SD 587 366
Coordinates
53.82437, -2.62858
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bottoms Farmhouse is a farmhouse, probably from the 17th century or earlier, that has been altered over time. It features a cruck frame covered with thick sandstone walls, with watershot coursed stone at the front and slobbered random rubble at the rear. The roof is a slate-clad gambrel style. The building has a rectangular, single-depth, two-bay plan and stands at one and a half storeys, with a single-storey extension at the right end. There are two tie plates located under the eaves at both the front and rear.

The main entrance is now through a board door in the extension on the right side, with another board door near the left end. Between these doors, there is one square window in each bay, the first of which is smaller, along with some evidence of earlier openings, including a vertical joint marked by jambstones towards the right end. In the lower stage of the roof, there are two flush vertical rectangular windows. The farmhouse has a chimney at the left gable and another near the right gable. At the rear, the upper half of the wall is slightly set back, featuring a small square window in the first bay, and larger windows in the second bay and the extension.

Inside, the layout has been altered, but the partition wall between the bays includes a full cruck truss, although the details are concealed. There is a staircase located in the front inner corner of the first bay.

Local climate

Bottoms Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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