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
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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