Middleforth Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Middleforth Hall
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-sill-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Middleforth Hall, Factory Lane, Penwortham, PR1 9TE
- OS grid reference
- SD 537 273
- Coordinates
- 53.74076, -2.70261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middleforth Hall is an early 18th-century farmhouse located back from the road on Factory Lane in Penwortham. The building is constructed of roughcast brick painted white, with stone dressings and a slate roof featuring gable chimneys—one of which is projecting while the other is corbelled. It has a double pile plan with two sets of two rooms. The house stands two storeys high with an attic and has an almost symmetrical façade. The entrance, which is slightly left of centre, features stone jambs and a lintel, along with a rectangular fanlight above. There are four sash windows with glazing bars at the ground floor and three above, all equipped with stone sills and splayed stone heads. The rear of the building includes an outshut to the left half, a central stairlight window, and three additional windows. Inside, the front ground floor rooms have chamfered beams, and the staircase is adorned with turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and rectangular newels.
Local climate
Middleforth Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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