Drifthouse North of Common House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1991. A C17 Drifthouse.
Drifthouse North of Common House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- seventh-landing-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1991
- Type
- Drifthouse
- Address
- Drifthouse North of Common House Farmhouse, Willington Lane, Clotton Hoofield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 526 644
- Coordinates
- 53.17502, -2.70983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drifthouse north of Common House Farmhouse is a small drifthouse dating from the mid-17th century. It features brick nogged timber framing set on a high stone plinth, with a roof that is partly covered in old slates and partly in corrugated metal sheeting. The structure has close studding with a middle rail, consisting of seven panels, an opening, and another seven panels. The gable ends are constructed in brickwork. There are softwood boarded doors with strap hinges located at the corners of both ends of the building. The side walls leading to the central passage are timber framed, supported by long passing braces, collar-trusses with three or four vertical struts, and two lines of purlins. The original roof is made of large slates with a sandstone ridge. The rear opening has been filled with a wall of unjointed rubble masonry, and there is a pitch hole high up in the west wall of the covered passage.
Local climate
Drifthouse North of Common House Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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