Lower Rileybank 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.
Lower Rileybank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-panel-auburn
- 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
- Lower Rileybank Farmhouse, Manley Road, Frodsham
- OS grid reference
- SJ 516 758
- Coordinates
- 53.27723, -2.7264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Rileybank Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 17th century and has been altered over time. The front is constructed of small brown bricks in English garden wall bond, while the back is made of sandstone. The roof is covered with grey slates, some of which are large. The building has two storeys and features six windows. Three boarded doors suggest a longhouse-style layout.
To the left, there is a former chapel that now serves as a calf-shed, predominantly built of coursed red sandstone, and it has a blocked chamfered mullioned window in the rear gable. The main block has casement windows with cambered arches on the lower storey.
Inside, the main room has a large, long oak beam with nick-stopped chamfers. The layout follows a lobby-entrance plan, with an inglenook fireplace in the right room and a former inglenook, which was later converted to a fireplace that used to include a bread oven, in the left room. The interior also features oak purlins and a carved sandstone panel in the former chapel, depicting a fleur-de-lys with a cross on each side.
Local climate
Lower Rileybank 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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