Charity Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House.

Charity Farmhouse

WRENN ID
forbidden-rotunda-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Charity Farmhouse, Smithy Brow, Wrightington
OS grid reference
SD 520 137
Coordinates
53.61778, -2.72693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Charity Farmhouse is a 17th-century house built from squared sandstone rubble and topped with a stone slate roof. It features an end baffle-entry plan with a cross-wing on the right side. The building has two storeys and is adorned with mullioned windows that have hoods. On the ground floor, there is a chamfered window with five lights, and above it, a recessed and chamfered window with four lights. The cross-wing consists of one bay and includes recessed and chamfered windows, with four lights on the ground floor and three above. Below the apex of the cross-wing is a blind chamfered one-light window with a segmental head. The main doorway, located on the left side, is moulded with a segmental head and has a chamfered recess above it. There is a second doorway in the left-hand return wall of the cross-wing with plain reveals. A chimney with a brick cap is positioned to the left of the main range. Slightly set back to the left is an addition that has a continuous roof, which is now blind at the front but includes a blocked window and doorway, along with a chimney on its left-hand gable.

Local climate

Charity 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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