Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse.

Old Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
slow-rampart-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Hall Farmhouse, Giantswood Lane, Somerford Booths
OS grid reference
SJ 827 668
Coordinates
53.19837, -2.25982
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Hall Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with a later addition. It features a timber frame with rendered infill, now entirely covered in render, and has a slate roof. The entrance front includes a stone plinth that runs along the entire building. On the left side, there is a gabled wing with a half-glazed doorway on the ground floor, flanked by single-light casements. Above this, at the first floor, is a 3-light casement window. To the right of this wing is a later, slightly recessed addition with two 4-light windows from the 20th century. A brick chimney stack is positioned slightly to the right of the center.

On the left-hand side, there are two ground floor windows: a 6-light window on the right and a 4-light window on the left, which features a king mullion in the center. Both windows have stone sills. The right end of the house has a half-glazed doorway on the right, with single-light windows on either side, a 2-light window to the left, and two 2-light casements on the first floor. A ground floor wing projects from the right side. The rear of the farmhouse has a projecting gabled wing on the left.

Inside, the ground floor has small-framed walling on a chamfered sandstone plinth, with ovolo-moulded ceiling beams that end in stepped and ogee end-stops. The drawing room features a massive brick chimney breast with an ashlar lintel. A staircase, dating from the 18th or early 19th century, has been relocated from another building. The first floor reveals exposed small-framing and angle braces in the older part of the house, with the low positioning of the angle braces indicating that the wall height has been raised.

Local climate

Old Hall 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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