Greenhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. A C18 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Greenhill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- errant-forge-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Greenhill Farmhouse, Ash Brow, Newburgh, WN8 7NG
- OS grid reference
- SD 485 102
- Coordinates
- 53.58658, -2.77854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenhill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1748 as noted on the canopy over the door. It has been altered over time. The building is constructed of brown and yellow brick in Flemish bond, sitting on a plinth of coursed squared sandstone, topped with a stone slate roof. It features a double-depth, four-room plan across two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical three-window facade. The facade includes a high chamfered plinth, a central doorway with a raised-panel door, a wooden doorcase, and a gabled stone slab canopy supported by large brackets. The tympanum above the door is inscribed with "C H A T C 1748." The windows are sashed, with flat-arched heads and keystones, currently glazed with two panes in the lower leaf and six panes in the upper. The eaves are boarded, and there are gable chimneys.
On the left gable, there is a low segmental-headed window at the ground floor (a casement) and another at the first floor (a sliding sash), along with a small two-light window in the attic. Most of the rear windows have been altered. Inside, the farmhouse features exposed beams and a doglegged staircase leading to the first floor, which has a closed string and turned balusters. The doors throughout the house are fielded panel doors, with those in the front rooms using H-L hinges and those in the back rooms using lug hinges, allowing them to be lifted off. The front rooms also contain very small chamber fireplaces (now blocked) with deep cambered lintels. The purlin roof includes some re-used timbers.
Local climate
Greenhill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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