Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-stair-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
- Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse, Whitechapel, Goosnargh
- OS grid reference
- SD 564 421
- Coordinates
- 53.87352, -2.66429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations and enlargements made in the 18th century. The building is constructed from random rubble with quoins, and the front and right return walls are covered with scored stucco painted white. It features two-span slate roofs with gable chimneys; the front roof has stone gable copings and kneelers. The farmhouse has a square plan formed by a three-bay 17th-century house with a parallel rear addition.
It is two and a half storeys tall at the front and two storeys at the rear. There is a gabled single-storey porch offset to the right of centre. Above the porch is an altered two-light double-chamfered mullion window that is missing the mullion. To the right, there is a square recessed casement with glazing bars on each floor, and to the left, there is a two-light casement at ground floor level. The left gable wall features two double-chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds, including two lights at ground floor left and four lights at first floor right, along with the remains of another four-light window at ground floor containing the lintel of a former door, and a blocked attic light. The right gable wall has a long hoodmould on each floor, including the attic, which has one light patent. The addition has one square window with a square surround on each floor at this end, and a doorway at the other end.
Inside, each gable wall of the front part has a stone fireplace from the 18th century with corbelled jambs. The fireplace in the first bay has a moulded surround and cornice, while the other is plain.
Local climate
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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