Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres South East 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. Wash-house.

Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres South East of Needless Inn Farmhouse

WRENN ID
under-tin-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1993
Type
Wash-house
OS grid reference
SD 445 096
Coordinates
53.58021, -2.8389
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wash-house building, located approximately 3 meters southeast of the Needless Inn Farmhouse, dates from the later 18th century or early 19th century and has been slightly altered. It is constructed of handmade brick in English garden wall bond (3+1) and features a stone slate roof. The building has a square plan oriented on an east-west axis and is partitioned one third from the east end, with a privy and store located at the rear of this partition.

This single-storey structure has a gabled front wall that includes a doorway to the left and a two-light sliding sash window next to it, both set under linked lintels. There is also a smaller two-light sliding sash window to the right, featuring glazing bars. A four-flue ridge chimney stack rises from the internal partition. On the south side, there is a doorway in the center and another at the right-hand end leading to the privy. The rear of the building has a doorway to the store, which is now covered by a shed roof.

Inside, the wash-house contains a cast-iron pump that draws water from a well in the yard, as well as a large rectangular fireplace flanked by washing boilers. This building is an unusually complete and intact example of its type.

Local climate

Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres South East 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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