Hunters Close is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. A C17 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Hunters Close
- WRENN ID
- endless-rampart-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hunters Close, Sapling Lane, Rushton, CW6 9AE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 572 633
- Coordinates
- 53.16596, -2.64062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunter's Close is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, rendered infill, and features a thatched roof. The building stands two storeys high. The entrance front consists of 14 x 2 cells of small framing, with angle braces positioned at the fifth and tenth uprights from the left. There is a 20th-century door located to the right of the centre, accompanied by a single 2-light window on the ground floor to the right, and a two-light and a three-light casement window to the left. The attic includes two 2-light dormer casements with swept gables. There are 19th and 20th-century additions at the rear. Inside, the ground floor rooms feature chamfered ceiling beams and an ingle-nook fireplace.
Local climate
Hunters Close receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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