Wood's House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1971. Farmhouse.
Wood's House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-chalk-crag
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wood's House Farmhouse, School Lane, Rainhill
- OS grid reference
- SJ 509 907
- Coordinates
- 53.41083, -2.73898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood's House Farmhouse is a building dating from 1664 and 1707, located on School Lane in Rainhill. The older stone wing on the right has a gabled roof and is two storeys high, featuring a six-light stone mullioned window on each floor and a stepped three-light window at the top of the gable. A later stone chimney projects from the right front corner. The left wing is made of brick and has a modern casement window on each floor. There is a smaller gable in the centre above a panelled door and an upper casement window in the brick section. The farmhouse has a stone roof with a central chimney. The stone portion is not occupied. The right wing has a datestone marked L R L A 1664, while the gable of the left wing has a datestone marked T F 1707.
Local climate
Wood's House Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
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