Outbuilding at Little Moreton Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding at Little Moreton Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-dormer-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Outbuilding at Little Moreton Hall Farmhouse, Congleton Road, Odd Rode
- OS grid reference
- SJ 833 589
- Coordinates
- 53.12737, -2.25068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outbuilding at Little Moreton Hall Farmhouse is a farm building dating from the 16th or 17th century, with a refacing from the 19th century. It features a timber frame with brick and wattle-and-daub infill, constructed with English garden wall bond brick, and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high.
On the farmyard front, the 19th-century brickwork includes two stable doors with cambered heads, five camber-headed window openings with ashlar sills, and four rectangular window openings dating from the 20th century. Above these, there are two loft doorways, with the one on the right featuring ashlar hinge dressings. A gabled dormer containing a loft door is located to the right of centre. The top of the walling has a wall-plate with peg-holes.
The rear wall, which is only visible from the interior, has 13 by 3 cells of small framing with tension braces at either end and two plank doorways. Inside, there are two purlins and a ridge with wattle-and-daub infill in the dividing wall, which includes a queen-post truss.
Local climate
Outbuilding at Little Moreton Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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