Alma Hill Cottage Alma Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. Farmhouse.
Alma Hill Cottage Alma Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-barrel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Alma Hill Cottage Alma Hill Farmhouse, Up Holland
- OS grid reference
- SD 521 052
- Coordinates
- 53.54139, -2.72392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Hill Farmhouse and Alma Hill Cottage is a mid-18th century farmhouse with a workshop wing at the rear, which has been altered and recently restored. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a composition tile roof and brick chimneys. It has a rectangular double-depth, double-fronted plan with the former workshop attached to the right-hand side. The structure stands two storeys high with a cellar and attic, displaying three symmetrical windows. The central doorway has a restored fluted pilastered surround, a panelled door, and a three-pane overlight. The windows are 12-pane top-hung casements that imitate sashes, all with raised sills; the ground floor windows have lintels with raised keystones. There are two ridge chimneys.
Inside, the stairwell features timber-framed partition walls, a dogleg staircase with an open string, scrolled brackets, slender turned balusters, and a ramped moulded handrail. The ground floor has three fielded-panel doors with large HL hinges. At the rear, Alma Hill Cottage is a single-depth, two-unit gabled wing with two low storeys, where the upper floor is taller than the lower. It now includes a 20th-century flat-roofed brick kitchen built in the angle, with one enlarged window to the left and two windows above, all featuring 20th-century small-paned glazing. The interior of the cottage includes two chamfered beams.
Local climate
Alma Hill Cottage Alma Hill 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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