Longton's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. House.
Longton's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-latch-onyx
- 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
- Longton's Farmhouse, Altcar Road, Great Altcar
- OS grid reference
- SD 324 063
- Coordinates
- 53.54946, -3.02131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longton's Farmhouse is a house that likely dates from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick sitting on a sandstone plinth and features a thatched roof. The building has three storeys and two bays. The windows are three-light timber casements with stone sills, and on the ground floor, these windows have segmental heads. The door, located to the right of the left-hand bay, also has a segmental brick head. The farmhouse is topped with gable chimneys.
Local climate
Longton's Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% 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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