Old Gore Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Farmhouse.

Old Gore Farmhouse

WRENN ID
knotted-lead-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Gore Farmhouse, Altcar Lane, Great Altcar
OS grid reference
SD 361 034
Coordinates
53.52339, -2.96412
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Gore Farmhouse is a house that likely dates from the mid-17th century. It has a three-cell lobby-entry plan and is constructed of brick in English garden wall bond on a stone plinth, topped with a slate roof. The building stands two storeys tall, with a continuous roof that sweeps down over a two-storey porch and a projecting wing on the left side.

The windows feature plastered surrounds and are mostly recessed and chamfered with mullions. The wing includes a six-light window on the ground floor and a five-light window on the first floor. Each side of the porch has a bay with five-light windows, and the first-floor windows have timber casements in chamfered surrounds. The first-floor window in the porch is now blocked and originally had two lights. The doorway, which is offset to the right, has a round arch with a rendered surround. To the left of the doorway is a stone plaque displaying shields of arms and the date '1596', which is unusually early for a lobby-entry house of this type. The house features chimneys on the left side and in line with the porch.

Inside, the middle room on the ground floor has a fireplace with a firehood bressumer. The front window contains three painted glass quarries, including the Molyneux shield of arms. The dog-leg stair, likely from the 18th century, has a closed string, turned balusters, a pine handrail, and square pine newels.

Local climate

Old Gore 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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