Ayrefield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1993. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Ayrefield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tall-postern-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1993
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ayrefield Farmhouse, Bank Road, Up Holland, WN8 0SY
- OS grid reference
- SD 523 082
- Coordinates
- 53.56855, -2.72095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ayrefield Farmhouse, appearing on older maps as Bank House, dates to the early 19th century, although it may incorporate earlier elements. Constructed of coursed, graduated sandstone rubble with a composition tile roof, it has an unusual double-depth rectangular plan with the main entrance in a gable end. The symmetrical south-west facade, featuring three windows, has a first-floor sill band. The central doorway is distinguished by pilaster jambs, a wedge lintel, and a panelled and glazed door topped with a three-pane overlight. The windows on both floors have monolith jambs, wedge lintels, and altered glazing. A chimney rises from the centre of the ridge. The right-hand (south) side has only a doorway near the rear corner and two altered or inserted windows above. The rear gable wall displays a large, five-light flat-faced mullioned window on each floor, with the first-floor window missing two mullions and its fifth light blocked. Above this window, masonry patching suggests a blocked doorway. A 20th-century lean-to addition extends from the right side at ground floor level, and a larger lean-to extends across the north side.
Local climate
Ayrefield Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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