Red Lion Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Red Lion Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rood-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Red Lion Farmhouse, Main Road, Weston and Crewe Green, CW2 5LD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 733 524
- Coordinates
- 53.06884, -2.399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Lion Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, that dates back to the 17th century with significant rebuilding in the early 19th century. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick and has a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and features a baffle entry plan.
The entrance front has three bays, with a ground floor doorway located to the left of centre. This doorway has a moulded lugged surround made of painted stone, with raised and fielded panels on the inner sides, and is topped by a pediment supported on scroll consoles. In front of the doorway is a late 19th-century timber-framed porch with a steeply pitched gabled roof. To the left of the porch is a three-light ground floor casement window with a basket arch, and to the right are two similar windows. A brick band, supported by alternately projecting headers, runs between the ground and first floors.
On the first floor, there are 3-light casement windows on both the right and left sides, and to the right of centre is a cambered-headed gabled half-dormer window featuring quatrefoils on the bargeboards. The extreme right and left sides of the building have clasping buttresses, and there are chimneystacks on both gable ends, with an additional ridge stack to the left of centre. The left gable end has a central 19th-century chimney stack, and to its left is a section of small framing with an angle brace in the corner, along with a jettied gable supported by a moulded bracket. The walling to the right of the chimney stack is flush with the gable and painted to resemble small framing, while the gable itself features chevron strutting.
At the rear, there is a projecting wing from the 17th century, flanked by 19th-century outshuts on either side. The interior has a 3-cell plan, with chamfered ceiling beams in the ground floor rooms and an obscured ingle nook fireplace in the parlour. The original exterior wall of the outshut displays exposed small framing and panels of wattle and daub infill. The rear wing features a queen post truss, and the sitting room contains 17th-century run-through panelling on the lower walls.
Local climate
Red Lion Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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