Adjacent Ruins at Scholes House is a Grade II* listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1971. Ruins.

Adjacent Ruins at Scholes House

WRENN ID
vast-turret-spring
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
St. Helens
Constituency
St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 January 1971
Type
Ruins
Address
Adjacent Ruins at Scholes House, Scholes Lane, Eccleston
OS grid reference
SJ 489 933
Coordinates
53.43485, -2.76963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The adjacent ruins at Scholes House are the remnants of an earlier friary. The house itself is primarily constructed of red sandstone and features a 16th-century doorway. Additionally, there is Jacobean external brickwork and internal panelling present in the structure.

Local climate

Adjacent Ruins at Scholes House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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