Farm Outbuilding C5 Yards Before Broomfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farm outbuilding.

Farm Outbuilding C5 Yards Before Broomfield Farmhouse

WRENN ID
narrow-gargoyle-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Farm outbuilding
OS grid reference
SJ 824 670
Coordinates
53.20025, -2.26383
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farm outbuilding dating from the 17th century, located approximately 5 yards before Broomfield Farmhouse. It is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys.

The entrance front includes a 17th-century porchway on the left and a 19th and 20th-century addition on the right. The left portion consists of two bays, with a central doorway on the ground floor that has a chamfered surround and a massive wedge-lintel. Flanking this doorway are two-light windows, each with chamfered ashlar surrounds. The first floor has two similar blocked windows.

On the left side, there are ashlar quoins on the right, a three-light window on the ground floor with chamfered ashlar surrounds, and a circular pitch-hole on the first floor set within a rectangular opening that has a cambered lintel. The gable above features ashlar springers and coping. Additionally, a 19th-century lean-to has been added on the left.

Local climate

Farm Outbuilding C5 Yards Before Broomfield Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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