South Tunley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. A C17 House. 9 related planning applications.
South Tunley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-pewter-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- South Tunley Farmhouse, Old Wash Lane, Wrightington
- OS grid reference
- SD 534 122
- Coordinates
- 53.60433, -2.70423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Tunley Farmhouse is a house built in 1675, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a concrete tile roof, forming a half-H plan. The building has two storeys and a continuous plinth. The quoins display some tooling typical of the 19th century. Each cross-wing, consisting of one bay, has two-light windows with projecting moulded stone surrounds and flat-faced mullions. The recessed centre features a three-light mullioned window of 18th-century style on both floors, with redder sandstone around these windows indicating some rebuilding. To the right, there is a single-storey gabled porch with a chamfered doorway that has a canted head. Above the doorway, a stone is inscribed with '1675 RHM'. The chimneys, which have brick caps, are aligned with the doorway and on the ridge of the left-hand (south-west) cross-wing, the latter having two shafts linked by bricks placed diagonally. Inside, the central room includes a firehood bressumer and a heck that creates a baffle entry. The two axial beams feature quarter-round mouldings. The front room of the left-hand cross-wing contains some 17th-century panelling with scribed mouldings, including a fireplace surround inscribed with 'R-M 1676'. Other rooms have not been examined.
Local climate
South Tunley Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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