Sales's Farmhouse with Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. Farmhouse, barn. 1 related planning application.
Sales's Farmhouse with Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- fossil-minaret-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Sales's Farmhouse with Attached Barn, BL9 6TH
- OS grid reference
- SD 817 149
- Coordinates
- 53.6311, -2.27671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sales's Farmhouse with attached barn is a historic building dated 1679, as noted on the re-cut lintel of the doorway of the lean-to at the right end. The structure is made of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof with a brick chimney near the right gable. It has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay end-baffle-entry farmhouse with a rear extension at the second bay, and a three-bay barn extending to the left.
The building stands two storeys tall, with walls raised by three or four courses, and the rear extension has a separate roof. The original entrance, located in the right return wall, is now covered by a single-storey lean-to, while the current entrance is an inserted door to the first bay. To the left of this door is a chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould, originally a four-light window but now altered and lacking two mullions. To the right is another chamfered mullion four-light window and a two-light firewindow, both with linked hoodmoulds and missing one mullion. On the first floor, there are two altered chamfered flush mullion windows, both three-lights and lacking one mullion.
At the right end, the lean-to, which replaces the original porch, has a doorway with a re-cut lintel inscribed ":IS : 1679:", and the extension partly covered by this lean-to features a plain doorway and the remains of one flush mullion window on each floor. Inside, the second bay contains an inglenook fireplace with a very large crudely chamfered bressumer, a heck to the original doorway on the left, and two chamfered beams. The historical context includes Thomas Sale, a Quaker who was imprisoned in 1665. The plan type of this farmhouse closely resembles that of Ridshaw Farmhouse on Bury Old Road.
Local climate
Sales's Farmhouse with Attached Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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