Owens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Owens Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tall-timber-hemlock
- 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
- Owens Farmhouse, Broad Lane, Downholland, L39 7HS
- OS grid reference
- SD 368 067
- Coordinates
- 53.5538, -2.95465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Owens Farmhouse is a house dating from 1677, with alterations made subsequently. It is constructed of sandstone rubble on the ground floor, with brick above, and has a slate roof. The house follows a lobby-entry plan, comprising two bays to the left of a two-storey gabled porch, and one bay to the right. The windows are 20th-century casements with plain reveals. Evidence of earlier blocked window openings is visible on the ground floor. The outer porch doorway has a round head and a keystone inscribed with '1677 RMH'. A chimney is positioned in line with the porch. Inside, the inner porch door is original to the 17th century, featuring studs and strap hinges. A room to the left of the porch contains chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a 17th-century firehood bressumer, although the present fireplace is a 20th-century replacement.
Local climate
Owens Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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