Smithy Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Smithy Farm
- WRENN ID
- still-stronghold-reed
- 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
- Smithy Farm, Hill Road, Eaton and Eccleston, CH4 9HG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 410 624
- Coordinates
- 53.15635, -2.88237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Farm is an originally built farmhouse that was largely rebuilt in 1896 by Douglas and Fordham for the 1st Duke of Westminster. The building features stone dressed red brick with blue diaper patterns that encase parts of earlier sandstone walls. It has a slate roof with two symmetrically placed shaped chimneys with three flues on the rear slope. The structure is two storeys high and has three bays.
A projecting oak-framed gabled porch sits on a shaped sandstone plinth, featuring an arched entrance under a carved beam with the date inscribed. The sides of the porch have leaded glazing. The upper storey has brickwork on the front, above a stone string at the first floor, arranged in panels with arched brick corbelling at the eaves. The windows have stone surrounds and mullions, with each ground floor light featuring an ogee head and iron casements with leaded glazing. The end gables are rendered and have stone-dressed lancets. The front door is a four-panel design with arched upper panels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Smithy Farm 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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