Scythe Stone Delph Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1966. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Scythe Stone Delph Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-stone-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Scythe Stone Delph Farmhouse, Maggot's Nook Road, Rainford, WA11 8PJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 483 021
- Coordinates
- 53.51378, -2.78016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scythe Stone Delph Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1682, as indicated by a date stone located to the left of the first-floor window in the first bay. The building is constructed of stone and topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and features three bays, with a central porch bay that projects under a gable. The windows are of five lights, equipped with double-chamfered mullions and label moulds, although the ends of the labels have been removed on the first bay. The segmental-headed entrance has a large lintel inscribed with "SCYTHE STONE DELPH FARM" and a three-light window above it. The right return and rear of the building have windows of two and four lights with single chamfered mullions. There is an entrance on the left return.
Inside, one of the ground floor rooms has chamfered beams with stepped stops. The original ledged and battered entrance door features chamfered battens, with three horizontal and one vertical batten on the hanging side, along with strap hinges and a latch.
Local climate
Scythe Stone Delph Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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