Belle Vue Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1967. House.
Belle Vue Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-rood-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Belle Vue Farmhouse, Crow Lane, Dalton
- OS grid reference
- SD 508 070
- Coordinates
- 53.55806, -2.74322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Belle Vue Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, formerly dated 1683. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building has a lobby-entry plan with one bay on each side of a two-storey gabled porch, and a cross-wing on the left (east). The house is two storeys high, with double-chamfered windows that have mullions and hoods. Most windows are of three lights, except for one five-light window located to the left of the porch on the ground floor. The cross-wing contains a window on each floor towards the left and a three-light stair window with a transom to the right. The first-floor window of the porch has two lights, and below it is a hood enclosing an empty recess that once held a plaque with the initials 'S' I M F S and the date 1683. The outer doorway features a moulded rounded arch and moulded imposts, while the inner doorway has a wooden frame.
Inside, the middle room has two chamfered axial beams and a fireplace bressumer supported on a stone heck. Within the inglenook is a plain stone fireplace from the 19th century. The two ground-floor rooms of the cross-wing are separated by a timber-framed partition, and there is a stone fireplace with a triangular-headed lintel on the upper floor of the cross-wing, which was the former parlour chamber. The roof trusses include tie beams and raking struts. At the time of the survey in February 1987, the house was in a derelict condition, with a significant portion of the roof covering missing. The house was previously known as Scott's Fold, according to the Victoria County History.
Local climate
Belle Vue 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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