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

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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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