Barn to North of Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1966. Barn.
Barn to North of Dial House
- WRENN ID
- south-gutter-curlew
- 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
- Address
- Barn to North of Dial House, Higher Lane, Rainford, WA11 8NJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 487 003
- Coordinates
- 53.4972, -2.77332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located to the north of Dial House, likely built in the 18th century. The structure is made of brick, with the roof timbers exposed. It consists of four bays, with the two right-hand bays featuring two storeys. These bays have ground floor casement windows and an external lateral stack. The second bay includes a barn entrance with splayed cheeks, and there is an inserted garage entrance in the first bay. Inside, the barn has tie-beam trusses with through purlins and a cross-wall to the right of the entrance.
Local climate
Barn to North of Dial House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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