Lower House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1967. A 19th century Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-basalt-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Lower House Farmhouse, Lees Lane, Dalton
- OS grid reference
- SD 506 092
- Coordinates
- 53.57762, -2.74637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House Farmhouse is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century, with possible earlier remains. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a roof made of stone slate and artificial stone. The building has a half-H plan and stands two storeys tall. The windows are horizontal sashes with glazing bars, plain reveals, stone sills, and crude hoods. Each of the cross-wings has one bay, and the door, located to the right of centre, has plain reveals and a hood. There are chimneys to the left of both cross-wings. While the external details of the house appear to be from the 19th century and show no evidence of blocked openings, the plan, which includes a single-storey hall and two cross-wings, is of a late medieval type and may suggest an earlier origin for the house. The interior was not accessible during the survey in April 1987.
Local climate
Lower House 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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