Lower Balcony Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. A 19th century Farmhouse.
Lower Balcony Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-threshold-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Lower Balcony Farmhouse, Pimbo Lane, Up Holland
- OS grid reference
- SD 508 035
- Coordinates
- 53.52622, -2.74351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Balcony Farmhouse is a farmhouse likely built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The building has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a prominent central section. Designed in the Jacobean style, it stands two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with one window in the center and one on each side.
The central section projects forward and includes a two-storey gabled porch. This porch has a plinth, a moulded string-course, and ridged gable copings with kneelers. The porch features a square-headed doorway with a double-chamfered surround, a boarded door with an overlight, and a hoodmould with deep returned ends. Above the doorway, there is a 12-pane sashed window. The flanking bays each have 16-pane unhorned sashed windows, all of which have raised surrounds with double-chamfered reveals. The gable chimneys, including one on the right that has been rebuilt in brick, add to the building's character.
The rear of the farmhouse has similar window arrangements and includes a single-storey gabled porch that matches the front. The farmhouse is part of a group of associated farm buildings surrounding a cobbled farmyard at the rear, which includes a coach house and cart shed range on the west side, cottages and a shippon range on the east side, and a barn at the north end.
Local climate
Lower Balcony Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% 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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