Barnes Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Barnes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-niche-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barnes Farmhouse, 166, Tithebarn Lane, Melling, L31 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 397 003
- Coordinates
- 53.49675, -2.91029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barnes Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed house, dated by its lintel to 1654. It is constructed of dressed stone with a stone slate roof, featuring a rendered first bay. The building has two storeys and four bays. The first bay includes a front outshut under a cat-slide roof, while the second bay has a gabled porch.
On the ground floor, there are double-chamfered-mullioned windows; the window in the second bay has three lights but is missing a mullion, while the third and fourth bays have four-light windows. Each window has label moulds, and the label mould over the second-bay window extends over the original entrance, which is now located within the porch. The first bay features a 20th-century bow window. The first floor has four-light chamfered-mullioned windows.
To the right of the third-bay window, there is an entrance with a dated lintel that has a recessed cambered soffit and a studded wide-boarded door. The entrance inside the porch also has a wide-boarded door. The house has two cross-axial stacks. The right return features a four-light window on the ground floor and a 20th-century window on the first floor.
Inside, there is a blocked entrance with a rusticated wedge lintel to the left of the main entrance. The interior also includes chamfered beams and a fireplace with a stone shelf to the left, as well as a blocked mullioned window in the former left return.
Local climate
Barnes Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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