Duck Houses to North of Buildings at White House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Duck house.
Duck Houses to North of Buildings at White House Farm
- WRENN ID
- quiet-barrel-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Duck house
- Address
- Duck Houses to North of Buildings at White House Farm, Higher Lane, Rainford
- OS grid reference
- SD 485 008
- Coordinates
- 53.50195, -2.77768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three duck houses are located to the north of the buildings at White House Farm, originally part of the home farm for Muncaster Hall. They were built in the 1860s and are constructed of stone with slate roofs. Each duck house has a rectangular shape and features a shallow gable with stone coping. There is a central round-arched entrance that includes a large keystone, with blocked windows on either side.
Local climate
Duck Houses to North of Buildings at White House 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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