Ambrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. Farmhouse, barn. 3 related planning applications.
Ambrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-bastion-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Ambrose Cottage, Pimbo Lane, Up Holland, WN8 9QL
- OS grid reference
- SD 506 030
- Coordinates
- 53.52176, -2.74584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ambrose Cottage is a farmhouse with an attached barn, now functioning as a single dwelling. It likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and has undergone alterations and renovations, including additions to the rear. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and features a slate roof.
The main range consists of two units and has a small projecting gabled wing on the left, with the former barn or shippon attached at the left end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, separated by a three-course band. The doorway is altered and offset to the left, with two vertical-rectangular windows on the ground floor and two square windows above, all of which are now 20th-century casements. A gable chimney is present on the main range.
The low gabled wing on the left, which was the former kitchen, has one square window in the re-entrant side and one 20th-century window on each floor of the gable wall. The former barn or shippon to the left features a large square-headed doorway near the left end, now fitted with French windows, and a three-light window to the right. The rear of the building includes a gabled wing to the main range and a 20th-century addition to the former shippon. Inside, there are two pairs of chamfered axial beams.
Local climate
Ambrose Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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