Wood Farm Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1983. Farmhouse.

Wood Farm Farmhouse

WRENN ID
waning-ember-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wood Farm Farmhouse, Kinsey's Lane, Ince
OS grid reference
SJ 447 768
Coordinates
53.28581, -2.8308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wood Farm Farmhouse is a 17th century long L-shaped farmhouse that has been altered. It is constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond, with sections of local squared rubble sandstone. The original thatched roof has likely been replaced with corrugated iron. The farmhouse features a projecting brick dentil course at the eaves and has segmental brick arches over the door and window openings. The windows include three-light, six-pane softwood casements set flush, and one double-hung, twelve-pane Georgian sash window that is recessed in the south wing. There are plain brick chimneys.

Inside, the farmhouse retains its 17th century floor plan. A recessed porch leads to the main rooms on either side, which include two back-to-back ingle nooks located under the central chimney stack. These nooks have deep oak smoke-hood beams with chamfered backs. There is a six-panelled door leading to the south wing, which may have originally been a separate cottage. Most of the other internal doors are thin, with half-inch ledges on battens. The first floor features oak stop-chamfered main beams supported by jowled oak brackets, suggesting that a timber-framed structure may have existed before the current brick and stone outer walls. The surviving timbers date back to the 17th century, although the roof timbers are not visible.

Local climate

Wood Farm Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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