Wood House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Farmhouse.

Wood House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
north-zinc-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1993
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wood House Farmhouse, New Lane, Burscough
OS grid reference
SD 430 125
Coordinates
53.60652, -2.8621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wood House Farmhouse is a farmhouse likely built in the mid-18th century and has been altered over time. It features pebble-dashed render on brick and a stone slate roof. The building has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a projecting porch. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical facade with three windows on each floor. The full-height, two-storey porch includes a round-headed doorway with an open-pedimented architrave and a fanlight with V-glazing bars. Above the porch, there is a tall 12-pane top-hung casement window, and on either side, there are two windows on each floor, all now 16-pane top-hung casements with thin sills and rectangular lintels. The farmhouse has side-wall chimneys on the front slope, with the right chimney being extruded. The left gable wall features a small gabled porch with a round-headed arch, one window on each floor behind it, and a pair of small attic windows. Inside, there is a 17th-century chamfered beam in the rear left room and a 19th-century staircase with stick balusters. The farmhouse forms a group with a barn located approximately 15 meters to the south.

Local climate

Wood House Farmhouse 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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