Benty Heath Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Benty Heath Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-gable-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Benty Heath Farmhouse, Whaley Lane, CH61 3UW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 270 845
- Coordinates
- 53.35243, -3.0972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benty Heath Farmhouse is a house dated 1732, as indicated by the datestone that reads 'W/R K/1732'. It is constructed of stone with a slate roof and features brick stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with the first bay being a later addition. The windows are fitted with horizontally sliding sashes. There is a 20th-century porch that includes a single light to the left. The farmhouse has both cross axial and gable-end stacks.
Local climate
Benty Heath Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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