Beech Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Beech Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-gutter-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Beech Farmhouse, Barnston Road, CH61 1BW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 279 833
- Coordinates
- 53.34223, -3.08312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse located on Barnston Road in Wirral. The building is constructed of red brick, which has been painted and partly covered with stucco, and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and has two bays, with a two-storey, two-bay wing on the left and a one-storey, one-bay addition beyond.
The main house has ruled stucco on its façade and includes a porch added to the left of the centre, which encloses an old five-panel door. Flanking the door are 16-pane sash windows that have projecting sills and cambered-arched heads. On the first floor, there are unequally-hung 16-pane sashes with projecting sills, while the second floor features 8-pane sashes, also with projecting sills. The ends of the house have rendered brick stacks.
The side wing, which is set back on the left, has a large 16-pane sash window on the left side of a round-headed sash with glazing bars. The first floor of this wing has two unequally-hung 9-pane sashes and a tall rendered end stack on the left. The one-storey part to the left has an ashlar lower wall and a 20th-century casement window beneath a segmental brick arch.
Inside, the farmhouse features a dog-leg staircase at the rear of the main house, which has square newels and a boxed-in balustrade.
Local climate
Beech Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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