Whitefield House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Farmhouse.

Whitefield House

WRENN ID
carved-terrace-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Whitefield House, Drummersdale Lane, Scarisbrick
OS grid reference
SD 405 126
Coordinates
53.6069, -2.89948
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitefield House is a farmhouse, now used as a store, dated 1752 on the porch. The building has been extended and altered over time. It is constructed of handmade brick, which is now fully rendered, and features a stone slate roof. The house currently has three bays, but it likely started as two bays with a shallow double-depth plan and a central projecting porch.

It stands two storeys tall; except for the first bay, the facade is symmetrical. The central gabled porch extends to the eaves and has a square-headed doorway with imposts and a keystone, which suggests it may have originally had an arched opening. The keystone is shouldered and inscribed with a cursive "B" and "J J 1752." There are two three-light sliding sash windows on each floor, with the lower windows having flattened segmental heads.

Chimneys are positioned at the front of the ridge on each original gable wall. The added bay to the left features a square-headed three-light sliding sash window on each floor and a gable chimney. The right-hand gable wall has an extruded chimney and a square window on the first floor. The rear of the house includes a two-light sliding sash stairlight in the center of the original building, a doorway leading to the addition, and several other sliding sash windows. Inside, the layout has been altered, but it still retains a doglegged staircase with turned balusters.

Local climate

Whitefield 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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