Poplar Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Farmhouse.
Poplar Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-vault-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Poplar Tree Farmhouse, Helsby Road, Alvanley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 494 742
- Coordinates
- 53.26301, -2.75884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poplar Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1684 that has been altered and extended. It is constructed of painted brown brick on a sandstone plinth and features a grey slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of two main rooms with a gable facing the road, along with a one-room right wing that was added later.
Notable architectural details include a cyma stone band at the first floor, which sits on a dentilled brick band of two courses, and another cyma stone band on a band of three brick courses, with the middle course set diagonally at the base of the front gable. There is a decorative band of raised diaper-work beneath the eaves. The blank front gable displays a stone inscription reading "IE:L:1684" at the center of the upper storey, flanked by projecting cambered arches that may have been the heads of former windows. Additionally, there is a blank oval panel with a moulded stone surround in the gable, and a flush narrow oval panel on the left side that may have been a former window or pitching eye. The rear corners of the building have flush stone quoins.
The farmhouse features a ridge chimney on the cross-wing and a flush gable chimney on the right wing. The entrance includes a four-panel half-glazed door set in a pedimented case in the right wing. The windows in both wings are 4 and 6-pane casements typical of the 19th century vernacular style. The interior has been altered, but there is an overmantel in the rear room of the cross-wing that likely dates from the late 17th century.
Local climate
Poplar 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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