Fox's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1983. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Fox's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-truss-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fox's Farmhouse, Fairfield Road, FY6 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SD 352 374
- Coordinates
- 53.82919, -2.98509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox's Farmhouse is a farmhouse, likely built in the early 18th century, with some alterations. It features rendered brick with stone quoins on the ground floor and a roof primarily covered with slates, except for four courses of stone slates on the outshut at the rear. The building has a baffle-entry plan consisting of three bays and an outshut, with an axial chimney stack located between the first and second bays and a gable chimney stack at the right end.
There is a two-storey gabled porch situated between the first and second bays, which has a semicircular arched opening and a two-light sliding sash window above it. Inside the porch, there are internal benches and unglazed peepholes. The farmhouse has six identical sash windows with glazing bars and stone sills, one on each floor in each bay, and there are remains of a string course below the top of the ground floor window in the first bay.
Inside, the first bay, which originally served as the kitchen, features wide hearths with large bressumer beams, and the housepart also has similar beams. A dog-leg staircase leads from the parlour in the outshut, while a quarter-turn staircase is found in the kitchen. The doors throughout the farmhouse have shouldered panels. A datestone from 1721 is mentioned but is no longer visible.
Local climate
Fox's Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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