Poplar Hall and Attached Farmbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1979. Farmhouse.
Poplar Hall and Attached Farmbuildings
- WRENN ID
- twisted-step-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Poplar Hall and Attached Farmbuildings, Whitby Road, Backford
- OS grid reference
- SJ 401 730
- Coordinates
- 53.25121, -2.89876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Hall and the attached farm buildings are a farmhouse and farm structures dating from the mid to late 18th century. The buildings have been altered and expanded over time. They are constructed of limewashed brick and topped with a slate roof. The farmhouse is arranged in an L shape with the barn and stables at right angles.
The house is two storeys high and features three windows. The windows are timber casements, some of which have been replaced, and have brick heads, with the ground floor windows being arched. There is a replaced door in a doorcase with recessed panels, which has an added glazed porch. Brick chimney stacks are located at the gable and on the ridge between the house and barn, and there are dentils along the eaves.
The barn has one ground floor opening with a long timber lintel. The gable end includes a stable door and a door leading to a vented hay loft above. A wing extending to the rear features a carriage door and three upper floor windows.
Local climate
Poplar Hall and Attached Farmbuildings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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