Farm Building at Whitehouse Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. A C19 Agricultural. 4 related planning applications.

Farm Building at Whitehouse Farm

WRENN ID
pitched-steeple-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St. Helens
Constituency
St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1985
Type
Agricultural
Address
Farm Building at Whitehouse Farm, Higher Lane, Rainford
OS grid reference
SD 485 008
Coordinates
53.50155, -2.77765
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farm building at Whitehouse Farm, dating from the 1860s, was originally part of the home farm for Muncaster Hall. It is constructed from rock-faced stone and features a slate roof. The building is arranged in a U-shape and is mostly two storeys high. The east range includes a central gabled through passage with elliptical archways. To the left of the entrance, there are two storeys and four bays, with windows that have plain lintels and two lateral stacks, one of which is octagonal and tapering. To the right of the entrance, there is a segmental cart entrance and external stairs leading to a first-floor gabled entrance. The right return features stable doors, windows, and pitching holes. The courtyard facade has two large altered entrances on the left and additional entrances on the right. The left return has stable doors with pitching eyes above and a projecting barn with opposed entrances and ventilation slits. The right return contains several round-arched openings leading to shelter sheds, most of which have 20th-century infill.

Local climate

Farm Building at Whitehouse Farm 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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