Barns Approximately 30 Metres South East of Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. Barn.

Barns Approximately 30 Metres South East of Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tired-sentry-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1973
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SD 517 048
Coordinates
53.53807, -2.72976
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This small barn, located approximately 30 metres south-east of Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse, is likely from the early 17th century or earlier. It has been enlarged with the addition of a shippon and has undergone alterations. The structure is built of coursed sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof, which now only covers the outshut and shippon. The barn is arranged in a U-plan, consisting of a 3-bay range oriented north-south, with an integral wing on the west side of the north bay and a small shippon added at right angles to the south bay.

The central bay has two opposing waggon doorways: the west doorway, located between the wing and the shippon, is full height but now blocked and has had windows and a door inserted, while the east doorway is much lower, featuring a cambered timber lintel and is also anciently blocked. The gabled wing on the left has a square window offset to the left and a square loading door above it. To the right, the gabled shippon has a doorway near the front corner of the re-entrant wall. The north gable wall of the main range has an inserted garage doorway.

The most notable feature of the barn is its interior, which contains two raised cruck trusses. These trusses are mounted approximately 1 metre up the walls, with tie-beams extended as spurs and yokes near the apex. The northern truss has blades crossed at the apex and a cross-shaped carpenter's mark on the south face of the east blade, while the other truss has blades meeting the ridge and a raising notch on the north face of each blade. This barn forms a group with Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse, located approximately 30 metres to the north-west.

Local climate

Barns Approximately 30 Metres South East of Lower Tower 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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