Lime Kiln Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Lime Kiln Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rooted-hinge-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Ribble
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lime Kiln Farmhouse, Todd Lane North, PR5 5UQ
OS grid reference
SD 551 267
Coordinates
53.73557, -2.68131
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lime Kiln Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of brick, rendered at the front and sides, and features a roof made of slates and stone slates that is hipped at the right end, with three ridge chimney stacks. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan, created by adding a double-pile range of three bays facing west to the rear of the left half of an earlier two-bay house that faces south. This earlier section has a two-storey gabled projection at its centre, likely the original porch.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with the current front door located at the junction of the later addition and the original house. This door is sheltered by a gabled brick porch and is flanked on each floor by tall 20-paned casement windows. There are also two smaller but similar windows on each floor at the left end. The south front of the building is now blind, except for one small window on each floor in the left side wall of the former porch, and one larger window on each floor to the right of it; all of these windows have glazing bars.

Inside, the original house features unusual halved quarter round moulded beams on both floors and in the bay at the rear. There is a coved cupboard with painted spandrels, a spiral newel attic staircase, and in the front upper chamber, a painted wooden overmantel depicting a landscape with a castle and five figures dressed in early 17th-century clothing, flanked by pairs of slim columns coupled at the head by a scrolled cap of Ionic design. Additionally, two stones inscribed "C T C" and "1684" are now incorporated into the garden wall, which is not included in the listing and may have originated from the house.

Local climate

Lime Kiln Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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