Hesketh Arms is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Inn. 5 related planning applications.
Hesketh Arms
- WRENN ID
- white-railing-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1968
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Hesketh Arms, 91, Liverpool Road, Rufford, L40 1SB
- OS grid reference
- SD 460 155
- Coordinates
- 53.63358, -2.81715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hesketh Arms is an inn, likely built in the late 18th century, with some alterations. It features scored stucco on brick, painted white, with black-painted quoins and a low-pitched hipped slate roof. The building has a square three-bay plan and stands three storeys tall with a symmetrical facade. The central door has six fielded panels and a traceried semi-circular fanlight, framed by an open pedimented surround supported by two engaged Tuscan columns with fluted entablatures and a moulded open pediment above. The ground and first floors have 12-pane sash windows, while the second floor has 6-pane sash windows. There is a moulded eaves cornice and chimneys on the gable walls. The rear of the building has been altered, and the interior has also been modified. A two-storey modernised wing to the left is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Hesketh Arms sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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