Woodfields Farmhouse and No 8 is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. Farmhouse.

Woodfields Farmhouse and No 8

WRENN ID
noble-bonework-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Woodfields Farmhouse and No 8, Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley
OS grid reference
SD 695 393
Coordinates
53.84911, -2.4643
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodfields Farmhouse and No. 8 is a 17th-century house constructed of sandstone rubble, partly rendered, and topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys high, with a cross wing on the south-west wall at its right-hand end. Each floor features a sashed window with a plain stone surround beneath a 17th-century hood. The gable is adorned with coping and kneelers.

The central recessed section includes a sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround, with a door to its right that has a plain stone surround and retains a section of 17th-century drip mould. On the first floor, there is a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hood. To the left, a two-storey gabled porch features coping and kneelers. The ground floor of the porch has a doorway with a plain surround, while the first floor has another three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hood. Adjacent to the porch is a later lean-to. The left-hand gable of the main house displays windows with plain reveals, a coping, and a brick chimney cap.

On the south-east wall of the cross wing, at the left-hand end, there is a three-light rebated and ovolo-moulded mullioned window on the ground floor, and a six-light mullioned and transomed window with inner hollow chamfer and outer chamfer on the first floor. To the right, a chimney stack is situated next to a two-storey gabled porch, which has a plain stone door surround with the inscription '-GA 1813' beneath a triangular moulded hood. Above this porch is a sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround, with another sashed window to its right on each floor.

Inside, the main block features a chamfered and stopped firehood bressumer and heck post, with some of the studs of the spere visible. This spere originally shielded the entrance in the south-west wall, accessed through the porch.

Local climate

Woodfields Farmhouse and No 8 sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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