Greyhound Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Farmhouse, former inn, former manor courthouse.
Greyhound Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-barrel-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse, former inn, former manor courthouse
- Address
- Greyhound Farmhouse, Shotwick Village, Puddington
- OS grid reference
- SJ 337 718
- Coordinates
- 53.23927, -2.99392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greyhound Farmhouse is a former inn and manor courthouse that later became a farmhouse and is now a house. It dates from the late 17th century, with an early 19th-century addition and later 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of English bond orange brick with red sandstone dressings and has a Welsh slate roof with two brick chimneys. It is two stories high over a cellar and features a seven-bay front. The right four bays comprise the original house, which has a chamfered stone plinth raised to the right of the door to include the entrance to the cellar. There is flush stone quoining and a dentil brick band at the first floor. The windows are two-light late 20th-century wooden casements with glazing bars, set under weak segmental brick heads. The central doorway has a heavy wooden surround under a similar head and is approached by three steps. The dentil band continues on the right side. The left three bays were originally a farm building that has been partially incorporated into the house, featuring a board door and two late 20th-century windows below, along with two square pitch holes and a line of ventilation slots above.
Inside, the entrance leads into a lobby with a winder staircase at the rear. The room to the right has a raised wooden floor and a corner fireplace with a late 20th-century grate, which is said to have been the manor courtroom. The room to the left features an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The ceiling beams are boxed, and the joists are hidden. There is an old board door leading to the kitchen.
The farmhouse is mentioned as the Black Bear in Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks' book "God's Providence House."
Local climate
Greyhound 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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