Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-tin-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bank Farmhouse, Roughwood, Betchton, CW11 4XX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 782 580
- Coordinates
- 53.11882, -2.32713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is timber framed with rendered infill and has a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high.
On the entrance front, there are 22 by 4 cells of small framing with angle braces at the right, left, and at the sixth and fourteenth uprights from the left. A 20th-century double doorway is located to the left of the centre, accompanied by three ground-floor casement windows with two lights each. On the first floor, there are two 2-light gabled half-dormer windows on the left and two 2-light casement windows on the right. A ridge chimney stack is positioned to the right of centre.
The left gable end features an outshut on the ground floor with a timber framed gable above it. The right gable end has 6 by 3 cells of small framing and includes a 20th-century bow window on the ground floor. It also has a coved jetty beneath the first floor, supported by moulded brackets on either side, which hold up the ovolo-moulded bressumer. The jettied gable is further supported by moulded brackets and has a moulded bressumer along with small-framed gables.
The rear of the farmhouse displays 22 by 4 cells of small framing with angle braces to the left and right, as well as to the eighth and sixteenth uprights from the left. There is a glazed doorway to the left of centre, along with one 3-light, one 2-light, and two single-light 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has four 2-light casement windows, which date from the 19th or 20th century.
Inside, there are small framed dividing walls on both the ground and first floors, along with 4-centered arched doorways on the first floor.
Local climate
Bank Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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