Old Crowholt Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1985. Farmhouse.

Old Crowholt Farmhouse

WRENN ID
carved-flue-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Crowholt Farmhouse, Cowbrook Lane, Gawsworth
OS grid reference
SJ 908 679
Coordinates
53.20812, -2.13914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Crowholt Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1663, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic and features a central projecting wing with ashlar quoins. The ground and first floors have 20th-century three-light windows, while the attic has a two-light window. The left side of the projecting wing includes a 20th-century half-glazed door on the ground floor and a circular window on the first floor, both set in a large ashlar stone. There is a single-storey 20th-century addition to the right. The left gable end has a 20th-century chimney breast at the centre, with a two-light stone-surrounded, chamfered, mullioned window to the left and two single-light attic windows in the gable. A substantial addition was made to the entrance front in 1973. Inside, the ground floor room features raised and fielded panelling, which includes a frieze of female figures with distended stomachs and volute arms, along with sheaves of fruit and flowers below their skirts. An inscribed panel reading "CHURCH WARDENS SEAT/W.A E.C. C.W. 1686" suggests that the panelling may have originated from another location.

Local climate

Old Crowholt 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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