Lea Manor Farm, Farm Building Immediately South West of Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Farm building.
Lea Manor Farm, Farm Building Immediately South West of Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-wattle-russet
- 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
- Farm building
- Address
- Lea Manor Farm, Farm Building Immediately South West of Farmhouse, Lea Lane, Aldford and Saighton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 434 578
- Coordinates
- 53.11517, -2.84676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lea Manor Farm is a farm building located immediately southwest of the farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century, as indicated on the Tithe Map for Aldford from 1837. The building is constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond and features a gabled roof covered in grey slate. It stands two storeys tall and is almost symmetrical, representing a model building of its time.
The central section includes a basket-arched drifthouse flanked by cowsheds on either side, with haylofts above that connect to the drifthouse through two superimposed round-arched loading openings, designed to facilitate loading regardless of how full the lofts are. Each hayloft features a pigeon loft on the east wall, containing six tiers of five nesting boxes, along with projecting brick landing platforms. Beyond the pigeon lofts, loading doors alternate with ventilation panels made of honeycomb brickwork, all set within basket-arched openings.
The lower storey has mid-20th century metal windows beneath concrete lintels, and there are two basket-arched doorways with boarded, ventilated doors. The west wall of the haylofts includes ventilators designed as triple-barred crosses.
Local climate
Lea Manor Farm, Farm Building Immediately South West of Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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