Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Farmhouse.

Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-basalt-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hill Farmhouse, 54, Moorfield Lane, Scarisbrick
OS grid reference
SD 400 111
Coordinates
53.59377, -2.9069
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1650 in the gable of the wing and has been altered over time. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. The building has a T-plan layout, with a two-bay wing on an east-west axis and a single-bay main range on the north side, likely replacing an earlier hall range.

The farmhouse is two storeys high. The gable of the wing features a recessed 3-light casement window with a deeply chamfered reveal on each floor, which was probably originally stone-mullioned. Near the apex of the gable is a datestone with incised lettering that reads "O S O" with the "O" letters trailing a double "H R R 1650 M" tail. The left return wall of the wing has a hoodmould above a blocked opening into the front bay, a large external chimney stack finished with a modern brick chimney, and an inserted window in the rear bay. The rear gable is painted white and has an inserted door and large glazed porch at ground floor, along with inserted windows in and beside an old window at the first floor.

The main range features graduated coursed masonry and has a doorway that abuts the wing, with one horizontal rectangular window on each floor. These windows have surrounds similar to those in the wing but are only slightly recessed. At the back, there is a single-storey extension and a gable chimney.

Inside, the wing has stop-chamfered beams in both parts, with a lateral partition wall of brick at ground floor and timber-framed with wattle-and-daub panels at first floor, although the latter is concealed. The kitchen in the main range has a rectangular stone fireplace, which is also concealed. The history of the farmhouse is not well documented, but the wing appears to be the earlier part of the structure, and its external chimney stack suggests there was a parlour fireplace in what was once a larger house.

Local climate

Hill 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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