Church House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Church House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-vault-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church House Farmhouse, Plumpton Lane, Woodplumpton
- OS grid reference
- SD 499 344
- Coordinates
- 53.80391, -2.7612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid-17th century and has been altered. It is constructed of handmade brick and features a slate roof. The building has a three-bay baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys high. There is a first-floor band, but the wall above this is now covered by 20th-century applied "half-timbering" with plastered panels. The entrance is a board door aligned with the ridge chimney at the junction of the second and third bays. The ground floor has four 4-pane sash windows, while the first floor features three casements. The rear of the building has also been altered.
Inside, the ground floor retains key elements of the 17th-century structure, including back-to-back inglenook fireplaces in the second and third bays. The fireplace in the second bay has a stopped quarter-round moulded bressummer and an altered firewindow, while the fireplace in the third bay features a stop-chamfered bressumer. The rooms have beams that match the bressumers, with lateral beams in the second bay and longitudinal beams in the third. A staircase is located off the rear left corner of the second bay, and the former staircase in the front right corner of the third bay has been removed. There are also service-end doorways from the second bay.
Local climate
Church House Farmhouse 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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