Guildhall Barn is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1966. Barn, cow house, stable. 6 related planning applications.
Guildhall Barn
- WRENN ID
- vacant-porch-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- Barn, cow house, stable
- Address
- Guildhall Barn, Gores Lane, Crank, Rainford, WA11 8QX
- OS grid reference
- SD 511 001
- Coordinates
- 53.49603, -2.73757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guildhall Barn is a 17th-century barn with a cow house and stable. It is constructed of stone with stone slate and slate roofing. The barn is a single storey, with a two-storey cross wing to the west end. The 5-bay barn has a cow house built into a closed bay on the north side of the central three bays, along with a large entrance to the left and a smaller entrance to the right. The cow house features a central entrance flanked by windows. A wide-boarded door is present on the right return. The south facade, which faces the Lane, has a large entrance to the left and evidence of a blocked entrance on the right. The roof is slate on the north slope and stone slate on the south slope. The cross wing has a stable door and window, a pitching door, and flanking small windows, one of two lights, along with two pigeon holes with a ledge to the apex on the north gable end. The return side of the cross wing has a stable door, two windows, and a pitching hole. The south gable end of the cross wing has a window. Inside the barn, there is a cruck truss with a tie beam and collar to the east of the entrance bay, followed by two tie-beam trusses with struts, and a cross-wall separating the eastern bay from the rest of the barn, which includes a pitching hole. The cow house contains five stalls, and a purlin is supported on a curved tie beam and four posts, two of which have ovolo moulding. The cross wing has a tie-beam truss with struts. The barn is likely contemporary with the farmhouse.
Local climate
Guildhall Barn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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