Swanbach Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Swanbach Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waiting-quoin-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Swanbach Farmhouse, Green Lane, Audlem, CW3 0ET
- OS grid reference
- SJ 655 422
- Coordinates
- 52.97679, -2.51424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swanbach Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed with brick infill and has a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic.
On the entrance front, the right side features a later addition of two bays. There is a central ground floor doorway with a gabled porch in front. Flanking this doorway are three-light 19th-century casement oriel windows. Above, on the first floor, there are semi-dormer windows with gablets on either side. The left side of the façade is the earlier section, which includes superimposed canted bay windows on both the ground and first floors. Corner-posts with brackets support the jettied first floor and gable, which has moulded bressumers.
On the ground floor, to either side of the central window, there are three blocked lights set in the upper wall, featuring ovolo-moulded mullions. A similar arrangement is present on the first floor. The gable has small framing and a 20th-century two-light window. The left side of the building displays eight by three cells of small framing on a brick plinth, with angle braces on the right, left, and center.
Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered beams in the ground floor ceilings and panelled doors.
Local climate
Swanbach Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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