Former Farm Buildings North West of Terra Nova School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Farm building, chapel, classroom, laboratory.

Former Farm Buildings North West of Terra Nova School

WRENN ID
sunken-brick-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1987
Type
Farm building, chapel, classroom, laboratory
Address
Former Farm Buildings North West of Terra Nova School, Twemlow
OS grid reference
SJ 796 701
Coordinates
53.22835, -2.30694
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former farm buildings located north-west of Terra Nova School are a linked group dating from the late 17th century, now repurposed as a chapel, classrooms, and a laboratory. They are constructed from brown brick in English garden wall and Flemish bonds, topped with slate roofs from various periods. The buildings are two storeys high and consist of five bays, with a six-bay west return and a four-bay east return, forming a "U" shaped plan.

The south-facing front elevation features a stone plinth and flush stone quoins, with large oak timbers and gudgeons at the east end that indicate two large door openings, which are now blocked. A new carriage opening with a segmental arch has been created between the fourth and fifth bays. Both the west and east returns have gabled roofs. The west return includes an original stone mullion window at the first floor, stone stepped labels above two altered ground floor windows, a blocked stone dressed door opening with a deep Tudor arched lintel, and a wide boarded loft door on strap hinges within a stone dressed opening. The brickwork includes old bricks with blue header courses and flush quoins at the rear north-east and north-west corners. The east return features a saw tooth course at the center of a three-course deep band. The windows are now generally 1-to-4-light flush casements. This group of buildings is included for its group value.

Local climate

Former Farm Buildings North West of Terra Nova School 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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