Lowe's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. A C18 Farmhouse.

Lowe's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dim-jamb-lake
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
Lowe's Farmhouse, Cobb's Brow Lane, Newburgh
OS grid reference
SD 478 092
Coordinates
53.57747, -2.78931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowe's Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid 18th century and has been altered. It features coursed sandstone rubble that is now rendered, with a composition tile roof. The building has a double-depth plan formed by a two-unit front range with contemporary rear wings that are coupled and gabled. It stands three storeys tall and has three symmetrical windows, a chamfered plinth, and a central doorway with a Gibbs surround. The vertical rectangular windows on the ground and first floors have been replaced with 20th-century top-hung casements, while the second floor has low three-pane windows that were formerly mullioned. The roof is hipped with chimneys on the rear ridges. At the rear, there is a small 20th-century porch at the center and numerous vertical rectangular windows with altered glazing, along with coupled gables.

Inside, the front door opens directly into the left room. The ground floor features chamfered beams with cyma stops, while the first floor has roughly-hewn beams that were formerly boxed and some inserted partitions in the front range. There is a dog-legged open-string staircase with scrolled brackets and turned balusters, which were originally two per tread but now have only one. The rectangular newels are composed of clustered turned balusters and have a broad moulded handrail. Notably, the main axis of the front range has very unusual coupled upper-cruck roof trusses.

Local climate

Lowe'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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