Wimbrick House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Farmhouse.
Wimbrick House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-hammer-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wimbrick House, Prescot Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 407 075
- Coordinates
- 53.56092, -2.89605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wimbrick House is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1783 on the rainwater head at the left corner. It is built of hand-made brown brick in Flemish bond, with English garden wall bond on the sides and rear. The building has a rectangular double-depth, double-fronted plan, plus a small service wing attached to the rear left corner. It stands two storeys high, with cellars and attics, and features three windows that are almost symmetrical.
The doorway, which is slightly offset to the right, is round-headed and has a tall pedimented architrave with panelled pilasters and rosettes on the entablatures. It includes a four-panel door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The ground floor has two large segmental-headed tripartite sashed windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three widely spaced 12-pane sashed windows. All sashes are unhorned and have exposed boxes. The house has gable chimneys, and attached to the left corner is a downspout with a lead rainwater head and bracket below, featuring raised lettering "R S" and "1783". This gable also has a round-headed attic window.
The rear of the house features a low single-storey service wing with a lean-to porch in the angle and tripartite windows. The right-hand gable wall has two large tripartite windows at ground floor, similar to those at the front, two 12-pane sashes at the first floor, and a round-headed attic window. This wall continues to the rear with a ramped screen wall that has an archway at the junction. The rear also has a lean-to porch in the centre, which has been altered to serve as a toilet, with the doorway blocked. To the right, there is a 20th-century tripartite window, like the others, and two 12-pane sashes above.
Inside, there is an elegant stone spiral staircase located in an enclosed position between the kitchen and morning room, which continues down to the cellars.
Local climate
Wimbrick House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1999
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