Farm Building North of Hillside Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1984. Farm building.
Farm Building North of Hillside Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tower-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1984
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Farm Building North of Hillside Farmhouse, Stone House Lane, Peckforton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 533 556
- Coordinates
- 53.09567, -2.69834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This farm building, located north of Hillside Farmhouse, dates from around 1870 and is designed as a shippon. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and consists of five bays, with a three-bay return on the south side. A stone plinth supports the structure. The doors are full-length and half-heck boarded, equipped with stone hinge and latch blocks. Windows are fitted with cast iron lattice casements and hopper lights, all having stone sills, while the doors and windows are topped with stone heads. There are round pitch holes with stone sills as well. A notable feature is the three-course deep projecting band at the first floor level on the west gable, with the middle course being cogged. The west gable is timbered, showcasing shaped purlins and a finial. This building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Farm Building North of Hillside Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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