Lower Brockholes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Lower Brockholes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
noble-grate-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Brockholes Farmhouse, Brockholes Brow, PR2 5AS
OS grid reference
SD 575 302
Coordinates
53.76723, -2.64502
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Brockholes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1634 on the porch, although parts of it may be older. It has been enlarged and altered over time. The exterior features white-painted pebble-dash on brick, with black-painted rendered dressings, and a slate roof. The building is arranged in an L-plan, consisting of a three-unit main range with a projecting porch and a crosswing to the right that projects to the rear and slightly overlaps the main range, suggesting it is likely older.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with the main range having three symmetrical bays and the wing featuring one wide gabled bay that is lower. The main range includes a central two-storey gabled porch with a segmental-pointed outer doorway that has large imposts, a shallower and wider inner doorway, a floating label above the outer doorway, and a moulded carved plaque above it, which is much eroded and displays a crested shield-of-arms along with the date 1634. At the first floor, there is a two-light casement window with a raised segmental-headed surround, a small canted bay window to the left with four cusped lights, and a square three-light casement window to the right with a raised surround, along with two similar windows at the first floor. A chimney is located at the left gable.

The wing has a low wide five-light casement window on each floor, with the lower window featuring modern joinery, a doorway to the right beneath a carried-down roof, and a small square window above this. At the rear, the main range has a shallow projection in the centre, which includes a 14th-century style sandstone mullioned window with two cusped lights and a quatrefoil. The wing has modern three-light casements with rendered labels and a small two-light stair window on each floor to the right.

Inside, the farmhouse features large chamfered beams on both floors of both parts, although the interior has been altered otherwise.

Local climate

Lower Brockholes 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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