Lime Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lime Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winter-belfry-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lime Tree Farmhouse, Limetree Lane, High Legh, WA16 6NU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 706 848
- Coordinates
- 53.36015, -2.44254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with 19th-century additions. It features a stone plinth, a timber frame, brick infill, and a slate roof. The building has two cells and two storeys. The entrance front has a stone plinth and is composed of seven by three cells of small framing with angle braces. There is a central 19th-century gabled porch, with three-light casement windows on the ground floor to either side, and two-light casement dormers on the first floor. The house has a central ridge chimney and a gable ridge chimney on the right. To the left, there is an early 19th-century extension that includes a three-light ground floor casement and a two-light dormer casement. The right-hand gable end features small framing with angle braces and angle struts. There is a 19th-century outhouse attached to the lower wall and a 19th-century outshut at the rear.
Local climate
Lime Tree Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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