The Old Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1988. House.
The Old Farm
- WRENN ID
- over-pediment-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Farm, Dawpool Farm, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 246 842
- Coordinates
- 53.34943, -3.13397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into four flats, built around 1865 for James Hegan. It is constructed from coursed, rock-faced red sandstone and features a graduated Welsh slate roof.
The building is two storeys high with an attic and has three bays, with twin wings at the rear. It has a chamfered plinth and large quoins. The central porch is one storey tall and is flanked by low diagonal buttresses, leading to a pair of doors under a two-centred arch and a relieving arch. Below the gable, there is a blind shield set in a recess, topped with ashlar copings.
To the left of the porch, there is a window with a transomed three-light casement in a chamfered, quoined surround beneath a relieving arch, and a similar two-light window is located on the right. The first floor features two-light windows that match those below. Dormer windows in the first and third bays have ashlar surrounds and hipped roofs, with a glazed triangular vent in the centre. The building has shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings, a finial at the right end, and an offset end stack on the left. The right side of the building includes a centred, one storey bay window.
This farmhouse is included for its group value in relation to the planned farm buildings nearby.
Local climate
The Old Farm 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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