School Farm Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Farmhouse.
School Farm Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-eave-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- School Farm Farmhouse, Stretton Road, Appleton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 636 837
- Coordinates
- 53.34897, -2.54677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Farm Farmhouse is an early 17th century farmhouse that was rewalled around 1800. It is constructed of brick and features a grey slate roof. An oak wallplate from the original timber frame can still be seen under the front eaves. The building is L-shaped and has one and a half storeys, with a door and three windows on the front and two windows on the left side. There are brick chimneys on the left gable, the front ridge, and the ridge of the left wing. The lower storey has small wood casement windows set under skewback arches. A 19th-century porch with a tiled gabled roof is supported by brackets.
Inside, the parlour to the right of the entrance has an ingle nook with a hood-beam that is supported on a shaped stone pier with carved patterns. The interior features many large, chamfered oak beams, and remnants of the former oak frame can be seen at the ground floor ceiling. There are oak purlins and doors made of three wide boards, including one 17th-century oak door with small panels located upstairs.
Local climate
School Farm Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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