Common House Farmhouse with Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1991. Farmhouse.
Common House Farmhouse with Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear
- WRENN ID
- steep-gallery-lichen
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Common House Farmhouse with Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear, Willington Lane, Clotton Hoofield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 526 644
- Coordinates
- 53.17474, -2.70983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Common House Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building with origins dating back to the 17th century. It is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond and features a slate roof. The farmhouse has two storeys and a three-room baffle entry plan, with a rear wing that creates an overall "T" shaped layout. The entrance includes a studded, boarded door set in a heavy oak frame, adorned with external architraves and a slated gabled hood supported by rakers from wooden corbels.
At the first floor, there are three-light wood casements with stone sills, while the ground floor windows have segmental arches and the first floor windows are topped with wedge lintels. The brickwork is built on a weathered stone plinth, and there is a three-course deep brick band above the ground floor window heads. The verges feature ogee moulded kneelers, although the copings and lower thrust blocks are missing. The roof has a stone ridge and two stacks that divide it into three sections. The rear wing, which serves as a dairy, is a single bay built in English Garden Wall bond, featuring a boarded door and a gable-end stack, with evidence suggesting that the roof has been raised.
Inside, the farmhouse displays exposed bevelled beams. At the rear, there is a 19th-century pump with a stone trough, along with a small stone pigsty that has a slate roof and shaped stone kneelers.
Local climate
Common House Farmhouse with Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings