Wychough Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1985. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Wychough Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-bastion-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wychough Hill Farmhouse, Malpas, SY14 7JX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 486 446
- Coordinates
- 52.99707, -2.766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wychough Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, probably dating from the mid 17th century, constructed of oak and later extended and encased in brick, likely in the second quarter of the 19th century. It features a grey slate roof. The small framing with arch braces at the corners is only visible externally on the upper storey of the west face, above a 19th-century brick outshut. The building has two and a half storeys plus an attic in the west wing, with the 17th-century section forming a roughly T-shaped layout. The head of the T, located to the west, consists of two rooms, while the leg of the T contains one main room and a former dairy. The windows are arranged in an irregular pattern, with some later 20th-century replacements. A large brick chimney is present.
Inside, the main room of the east wing features chamfered oak beams and an inglenook with a bevelled oak bressumer. The staircase has been renewed, and there are small-framed oak partitions on both storeys. The oak roof structure includes wrought purlins with run-out stops in the north attic room, and a heavy ridge-piece that is diagonally set.
Local climate
Wychough Hill Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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