Brown's Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Brown's Bank Farmhouse

WRENN ID
spare-porch-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brown's Bank Farmhouse, Whitchurch Road, Newhall, CW3 0EJ
OS grid reference
SJ 645 430
Coordinates
52.98376, -2.52975
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brown's Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1759, as indicated by a datestone that reads "Robt. and Alice/Brown 1759." It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick with black headers and has a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys with an attic.

The entrance front features a lower portion to the left with three bays, including a central lugged, moulded door surround that contains a six-panel door, where the lower four panels are raised and fielded, and the upper two are glazed. The leftmost window consists of three 19th-century lights with a cambered head and wooden sill, while to the right is a mezzanine window with two lights and a cambered head. Adjacent to this is a projecting gabled wing that has two-light ground and first-floor cambered-headed windows, separated by a band of two bricks in depth. The gable features stone springers and stone coping, with another band of two bricks in depth dividing the first floor from the gable.

Chimney stacks are located above the left-hand gable and to the right of the centre. The left-hand gable end has bands of two bricks in depth separating the floors, along with a similar band in the middle of the gable. There are also a pair of 19th-century French windows on the ground floor to the left, two two-light cambered-headed windows on the first floor, and two blocked square openings in the gable.

At the rear, a 20th-century glazed outshut masks a three-light cambered-headed window on the ground floor, with a similar window above it. To the right of this is a blocked three-light cambered-headed window with a flat-arched head. The left gable has two-light cambered-headed windows on both the ground and first floors, with brick bands dividing the floors. There is also a two-light window in the gable, which features stone springers and a coping.

Inside, the ground and first floors have doors with H and butterfly hinges. The ground floor includes chamfered ceiling beams and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer.

Local climate

Brown's Bank 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • 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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