Beckfoot Farmhouse and Farm Building Adjoining West is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1984. House.
Beckfoot Farmhouse and Farm Building Adjoining West
- WRENN ID
- tangled-corner-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1984
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 774 536
- Coordinates
- 53.97862, -2.34535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckfoot Farmhouse, built in 1686 and partly rebuilt in 1876, is a house constructed from sandstone rubble with a slate roof. It features a double-pile plan. The facade has two bays to the right of a two-storey gabled porch. The windows in the left bay have an inner ovolo and outer chamfer, with ovolo-moulded hoods; the ground floor has five lights, while the first floor has four lights. The right bay contains four-light windows with an inner hollow chamfer, an outer chamfer, and hoods. The porch includes a stepped three-light mullioned window with an inner ovolo, outer chamfer, and ovolo-moulded hood. Below the porch gable is a plaque reading 'W & M HALLAM 1876'. The door features a moulded surround with a shaped lintel and an inscription above: 'EBI AN.DO 1686', both of which have been re-tooled and are enclosed by a hood. The ends have stacks, and the dressings on the rear wall date from the 19th-century rebuilding.
Inside, the left-hand front room has a stone fireplace with raised and fielded panels carved on the lintel and jambs. The lintel has a segmental soffit and a cyma moulded cornice, with the two outer panels each displaying a single carved flower. The central panel is inscribed: 'James and Anna Swinglehirst Anno Domi 1728'.
Adjoining to the left is a shippon and garage, which were formerly part of the house and have an asbestos sheet roof. On the left, there are remains of a surround to a mullioned window with a hood. To its right is a door with plain reveals, and a wider door at the far right. On the first floor to the right is a three-light double-chamfered mullioned window. Towards the left, a former two-light mullioned window has been cut through to create a pitching hole. The left-hand gable shows the line of a roof with a steeper pitch, which may belong to this building or an earlier structure that has since disappeared.
Local climate
Beckfoot Farmhouse and Farm Building Adjoining West 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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