Top House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1985. Farmhouse.

Top House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rough-mantel-vetch
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
Top House Farmhouse, Whitchurch Road (A41), No Man's Heath and District
OS grid reference
SJ 515 479
Coordinates
53.02667, -2.72406
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Top House Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from around 1700. It features irregular Flemish bond brown brickwork and has a steep grey slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three windows. There is a band of two raised courses of brick that separates the first floor, and it has parapet end gables with flush gable chimneys; the left chimney has been rebuilt in red brick above the first floor. The entrance is through a boarded oak door located in a 19th-century gabled open porch. The front of the house has mid-19th century iron casements, while the back includes two leaded casements.

Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace in the front left room, with signs of a former inglenook in the kitchen behind it. The front and back right rooms each have corner fireplaces. Each front room features a chamfered oak beam and oak joists, and the ceiling in the right room also has a diagonal beam that runs parallel to the corner chimney. Upstairs, there is an oak-framed spine wall. The downstairs has two doors made of broad overlapping oak boards, while there is one plain broad-board oak door upstairs. The staircase is made of oak and includes newels, a shaped square rail, and two turned balusters per step.

Local climate

Top House Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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