Barn Approximately 6 Metres East of White Rails Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1992. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn Approximately 6 Metres East of White Rails Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-lead-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1992
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Approximately 6 Metres East of White Rails Farmhouse, L39 8RQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 405 088
- Coordinates
- 53.57287, -2.89996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, dating from around 1700, stands approximately 6 metres east of White Rails Farmhouse. Constructed primarily of handmade red brick in an English garden wall bond (a pattern of three courses of bricks with one header course), the south side facing the road has been partially rebuilt using 20th-century brick. The roof is corrugated. The barn has a rectangular five-bay layout.
The south front features a blocked waggon doorway centrally positioned, flanked by large 19th-century buttresses. The buttress on the right partially obscures the remains of a feature—possibly a former window or plaque—with a basket-arched surround. Slit-breather vents are blocked on the right side of the south wall, while the left side has been rebuilt. The north front includes a rebuilt waggon entrance in the centre, with metal sliding doors, a square window, and an altered doorway to the left. A cart doorway with a cambered timber lintel is located on the right.
The west gable wall has external steps leading to a loft doorway with a square head, flanked by small basket-arched windows. Inside, the barn has a windbraced principal-rafter roof with raked struts and two pairs of purlins. A timber-framed partition wall with wattle-and-daub infilling also exists. The barn forms a group with White Rails Farmhouse.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 6 Metres East of White Rails 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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