Building Immediately North West of North West Corner of Church House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Shippon, store.

Building Immediately North West of North West Corner of Church House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
riven-column-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1986
Type
Shippon, store
Address
Building Immediately North West of North West Corner of Church House Farmhouse, Goosnargh Lane
OS grid reference
SD 561 369
Coordinates
53.82675, -2.66739
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, located immediately northwest of the northwest corner of Church House Farmhouse, is a Grade II listed structure of uncertain former purpose, currently used as a shippon and store. It may have been a wing of the former farmhouse, which was dated 1589 and demolished in the mid-19th century. The building features partly handmade brick on a high plinth of watershot sandstone, random rubble with quoins, and some modern brick. It has a tiled roof with stone gable copings that have obelisk finials. The rectangular plan consists of approximately three bays and stands two storeys tall.

The south gable, made of old brick, has a large blocked four-light mullioned window with a hoodmould on each floor, with the surrounds rendered. The west side has three chamfered Tudor-arched doorways; the first two are coupled but of unequal height, while the third has been altered into a window. Above the middle door, there is a square door. The north gable features three linked similar doorways at ground level, with the first covered by tanks, the center blocked by a flight of steps at right angles to the wall, and a door at the top of the steps with a window to its right. The east side wall is mostly modern brick, but the northeast corner has old brick that appears to connect with remnants of similar masonry extending eastward under a lean-to shed. The interior is not of special interest. Historically, the building is said to have been used as a chapel and was owned by the Helme family in the 16th and 17th centuries. The old house dated 1589 was taken down "a few years ago," according to Fishwick.

Local climate

Building Immediately North West of North West Corner of Church House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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