Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres West of Lower Pimbo Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1993. Wash-house.

Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres West of Lower Pimbo Farmhouse

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1993
Type
Wash-house
OS grid reference
SD 510 036
Coordinates
53.52705, -2.74022
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wash-house building, now used as a store, is located approximately 3 metres west of Lower Pimbo Farmhouse in Up Holland. It likely dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of watershot coursed sandstone rubble with a slate roof and a brick chimney. The building has a rectangular two-room layout and is a single storey. The front features one window, with a doorway slightly left of centre that has a board door. To the right of the door is a square six-pane sash window, and there is a gable chimney at the right-hand end. The rear of the building has two square windows, one of which is a slightly altered six-pane sash.

Inside, the larger room on the right contains a large rectangular stone fireplace with the remains of a cast-iron range, which included flat-irons at the time of the survey. There is also a large washing boiler in the left corner and an original Victorian wooden washing machine with hand-turned wooden paddles and mangle rollers. This building forms a group with Lower Pimbo Farmhouse and a barn located approximately 30 metres to the southeast.

Local climate

Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres West of Lower Pimbo Farmhouse 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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