Church House Farmhouse and Wall to Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. A Early C19 Farmhouse.

Church House Farmhouse and Wall to Front Garden

WRENN ID
rusted-banister-rook
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
Period
Early C19
Address
Church House Farmhouse and Wall to Front Garden, Manley Road, Alvanley
OS grid reference
SJ 497 739
Coordinates
53.26032, -2.75427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century, is a farmhouse with a wall to the front garden. It is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick set on a sandstone plinth, with a roof that was originally slate but has been replaced with cement slates. The building has two storeys plus an attic and features a symmetrical three-window pediment gable facing the road, alongside a two-storey, two-window lower wing to the right, which may be older.

The main entrance consists of a door with five fielded panels located in a recessed round-arched porch. On either side of the porch, there are three-light flush sash windows, with configurations of 4 panes, 12 panes, and 4 panes. The upper storey has three flush 12-pane sash windows, while the attic features one flush unequal 9-pane sash window. All windows are adorned with wedge lintels and projecting stone cills. The right wing includes two flush small-pane casements (one of which has been replaced) under gauged brick flat arches on the lower storey, and two smaller casements on the upper storey directly beneath the eaves. The former right corner has flush sandstone quoins, which have been built against by a one-bay extension, likely from the early 19th century.

The attached garden wall features large sandstone blocks with bevelled tops on the left side and smaller sandstone blocks with weathered copings on the front. Inside the farmhouse, there are five-panel doors and an open well stair with a swept rail, stick balusters, and shaped brackets, probably made of oak but painted.

Local climate

Church House Farmhouse and Wall to Front Garden 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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