Walnut Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1970. Farmhouse.

Walnut Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muffled-vault-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1970
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Walnut Tree Farmhouse, Helsby Road, Alvanley
OS grid reference
SJ 494 743
Coordinates
53.26353, -2.75957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been altered and extended. It is built of coursed rubble sandstone, with the front and left end entirely pebbledashed, while the extension is made of painted brick. The roofs are covered with graded grey slate. The building is T-shaped, featuring two and a half storeys in the left wing, two storeys in the right wing, and a projecting front wing that is also two storeys high, each wing having one window. There are three rendered chimneys: one on the ridge at the junction of the central and left wing, one behind the ridge, and one projecting from the gable of the left wing.

The upper storey of the right end gable has a five-light mullioned window, with the two outer lights blocked. A hollow-moulded stone band runs along the first floor of the right wing, and similar bands encased in pebbledash are found above the windows of each storey in the front wing gable. The windows in the front gable, the front and end gable of the left wing, and the third storey right end gable of the left wing, as well as three windows at the rear, are small-pane casements of mid-19th century style, while other windows have been replaced in keeping with the original design.

Inside, the rear central room features an inglenook with damaged ovolo-moulded sandstone sides and a cambered ovolo oak bressumer. The interior also includes chamfered oak beams and some oak small framing, although the stairs have been replaced.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Farmhouse 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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