Oak Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Oak Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spindle-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Oak Tree Farmhouse, Edgewell Lane, Rushton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 573 632
- Coordinates
- 53.16502, -2.63916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with later additions. It features a timber frame with rendered infill and has a thatched and slate roof. The building has a baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys high. The entrance front shows the earliest portion on the right, with a later 17th-century section to the left. The earliest part has 12 by 3 cells of small framing and tension bracing on the left side. The left section consists of 9 by 3 cells of small framing. There are single and three-light windows on the ground floor, along with a four-light casement on the left. A 19th-century door is located to the right, with a gabled and glazed 19th-century porch in front. A single ridge chimney stack is positioned to the right over the doorway. The right gable end features 5 by 3 cells of small framing, with angle braces, queen posts, and angle and V-struts in the gable. A 19th-century wing is attached to the rear.
Local climate
Oak Tree Farmhouse receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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