Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-tower-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Dunham on the Hill, Dunham-On-The-Hill and Hapsford, WA6 0LX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 471 726
- Coordinates
- 53.24841, -2.79332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a late 17th to early 18th century farmhouse, altered subsequently. It is constructed of rendered brick with stone dressings and has a steeply pitched concrete tile roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics and cellars, and has three windows. It features replaced casement windows and a centrally placed door, with eaves dentils. Rendered stacks are located at the gable ends. The interior includes a rock-cut cellar with recessed shelves, and a boarded cellar door with a strap hinge. Stop-chamfered beams are also present. A sophisticated close string dog-legged staircase has twisted balusters, newels with recessed panels, a moulded cornice, finials, and pendants, a moulded rail, a string with a pulvinated frieze, and a coved cornice. Bolection moulded raised panels are situated above a Victorian grate and mantel in the angle of the northeast room.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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