Barn and Shippon Approximately 50 Metres North of Needless Inn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Barn, shippon.

Barn and Shippon Approximately 50 Metres North of Needless Inn Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gaunt-floor-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1993
Type
Barn, shippon
OS grid reference
SD 445 096
Coordinates
53.58071, -2.83952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a barn and shippon, likely dating from the mid to late 18th century, and has been altered. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond and features stone slate roofs. The structure consists of two rectangular blocks aligned on an east-west axis, with the shippon range attached to the southeast corner of the barn.

The barn has three bays, featuring an altered wagon doorway in the first bay, a loading door above this, a doorway in the center bay, and a diamond-pattern breather in the third bay. On the north side, there is a central wagon doorway sheltered by a shallow porch with splayed cheeks and a roof that extends down. The shippon range to the right is two stories high, with four doorways on the ground floor, all except the third having stable doors. There are also two loading doors on the first floor, positioned slightly to the left of the first and third doors below, and a small six-pane fixed window at the right-hand end.

Inside, the barn retains original wooden stalls and other features.

Local climate

Barn and Shippon Approximately 50 Metres North of Needless Inn Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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