Rake House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1975. Farmhouse.
Rake House
- WRENN ID
- calm-render-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rake House, Lower Rake Lane, Helsby
- OS grid reference
- SJ 488 757
- Coordinates
- 53.27598, -2.76821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rake House is a farmhouse, now a house, built in 1807. It is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick and has a graded grey slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features three windows; it originally had two windows, but a two-storey, one-room bay was added to the left side, likely in the early 19th century.
The entrance has a wide half-glazed door with margin panes and fielded lower panels, set in a moulded case with corner roses, located centrally in the right portion. The windows are 16-pane sashes, recessed in the right portion and flush in the left portion, which has pale headers. The window arches are slightly cambered and gauged in brick, with those on the left portion being more sharply curved. Above the door, there is a stone inscribed with "E.H. 1807." The house has three diminishing brick chimneys.
There is a taller rear wing from the late 19th century, but it does not have any notable features. The interior has not been inspected. Attached farm buildings, dated EH 1826 and converted into dwellings, are not included in this listing.
Local climate
Rake House 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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- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
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