Barn 20 Metres North of Felton's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1989. Barn, shippon range, stable, store.

Barn 20 Metres North of Felton's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
little-hearth-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1989
Type
Barn, shippon range, stable, store
OS grid reference
SD 501 066
Coordinates
53.5538, -2.75439
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a barn and shippon range, now used as a stable and store, located 20 metres north of Felton's Farmhouse. It likely dates from the late 16th century and was enlarged and altered in the 17th century and later. The structure is made of coursed squared sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. It has a rectangular five-bay plan oriented on an east-west axis, with an added stable at the west end.

This impressive stone range features opposed wagon entrances in the third bay, with some slit breathers to the right. There are four square-headed doorways in the right-hand half and two square loading doors above these. At the left end, there is a square-headed doorway leading to the added stable and a recent buttress at the junction.

The interior contains two full cruck trusses that define the fourth bay. The first truss, which forms the right side of the central threshing area, appears to have been the former west gable end of the building. It has vacant mortices for a former sill and rail, severed tie-beam ends, and a collar and yoke with stave sockets in the soffits. The blades of this truss are weathered on the west face. The second cruck truss features more strongly curved blades, short cruck-ties, a tie-beam with post spurs, and a yoke. Both trusses have dorsals and support chamfered purlins, with the north side featuring an up-windbrace to the west truss and a vacant mortice for a former downbrace.

The heads of former wall-posts are attached to the north side of both trusses, and the wall-plate between them shows mortices and peg-holes for former intermediate posts, indicating that the wall was originally timber-framed. The two-bay west end has a 17th-century principal-rafter roof truss and chamfered purlins, while the east end features a 19th-century truss and purlins. This barn forms a group with Felton's Farmhouse, located approximately 20 metres to the south.

Local climate

Barn 20 Metres North of Felton's Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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