Barn South West of Crow's Nest is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1988. Barn.
Barn South West of Crow's Nest
- WRENN ID
- waiting-eave-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn South West of Crow's Nest, Crank Road, Rainford
- OS grid reference
- SD 513 013
- Coordinates
- 53.50682, -2.73566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a barn located south-west of Crow's Nest, dated 1700 according to the datestone. It is constructed from dressed stone and features a slate roof. The barn consists of five bays and has a gabled wing to the south-east, with an outshut under a cat-slide roof to its left and a cow house under a cat-slide roof to the north-west. The barn has blocked entrances and ventilation slots, along with a garage entrance and 20th-century windows on the north-east side, which also features the date stone and a pitching eye above. The wing has external steps leading to the first floor, which may have served as a "paddy room" for itinerant Irish labourers. Inside, the barn contains collar and tie beam trusses, with posts separating the barn from the cow house, which still has its original stone partitions. There is also a daub and wattle partition between the barn and the wing at the first floor level.
Local climate
Barn South West of Crow's Nest 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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