Gell Farm Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Farmhouse.

Gell Farm Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tattered-iron-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Gell Farm Farmhouse, Main Road, Dodleston
OS grid reference
SJ 346 621
Coordinates
53.15284, -2.97925
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gell Farm Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1894 by Douglas and Fordham for the 1st Duke of Westminster. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and features a grey slate roof with red ridge tiles. The building has two storeys and an asymmetrical front with three bays, with the entrance located in the left bay. It is topped with two shaped gables that are coped in terra cotta and adorned with ball finials. The farmhouse has two ornate chimneys with stone plinths. The front windows are iron casements with intact leaded glazing, set in moulded-brick mullioned openings that have a flat ogee head for each light. The entrance features framed and boarded shaped double doors made of oak, which are part glazed and set in a basket-arched doorway of moulded brick.

Inside, there is a wide closed-string staircase that includes newels and two turned balusters per step, along with moulded flat balusters on the landing. The interior also features six-panel doors with moulded stiles, muntins, and rails.

Local climate

Gell Farm Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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