Lower Gills Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. House.
Lower Gills Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-render-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Gills Farmhouse, Rimington
- OS grid reference
- SD 823 447
- Coordinates
- 53.89871, -2.26992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Gills Farmhouse is a house built in 1698, which has been altered over time. It is constructed of rendered rubble and has a slate roof. The farmhouse has a three-cell plan and is two storeys high. The two right-hand cells each have one bay and feature windows with double-chamfered surrounds. The left-hand window has two square mullions, while the right-hand window, which used to have four lights, now retains a central mullion and has a hood above it. On the first floor, the left-hand window has no mullions, and the right-hand window consists of three lights.
The door, located between the bays, has a plain stone surround and is topped with a hood made of two pitched stone slates. The left-hand cell contains one window on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all with plain reveals. There is also a door on the left with a plain stone surround, which is sheltered by a modern glazed porch. The farmhouse features chimneys on the left-hand gable and to the right of the left-hand cell. Part of the rear wall is obscured by an outshut, which has a one-light chamfered window on each floor of its west wall.
Inside, the east room has a shouldered stone fireplace, and above it is a plaster panel displaying the year '1698' in raised numbers.
Local climate
Lower Gills Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 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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