Well House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Farmhouse.
Well House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-roof-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Well House Farmhouse, Whitchurch Road, Handley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 463 576
- Coordinates
- 53.11356, -2.80266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of orange brick in Flemish bond with yellow headers and features a hipped Welsh slate roof along with three brick chimneys. The building has an L-shaped plan and is two stories high with a symmetrical three-bay south front. There is a stone band at the first floor and a moulded wooden cornice. The end bays have 16-pane sash windows with flat wedged stone heads below and 12-pane sash windows above. The entrance features a Doric doorcase with a heavy flat hood, a half-glazed door, and a fanlight with radial glazing bars. The east front also has similar 12-pane sash windows.
Local climate
Well House Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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