Irby Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1962. Farmhouse. 11 related planning applications.
Irby Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-corbel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Irby Farmhouse, Thingwall Road, CH61 3UA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 256 844
- Coordinates
- 53.35179, -3.11843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Irby Farmhouse is a farmhouse, dating in part to 1612 with further development in the 18th century. It is located on Thingwall Road, Wirral. The building is constructed of stone with some brick, and has a slate roof. It is two storeys with an attic, and originally comprised three bays, with a two-storey rear wing.
The front of the farmhouse has a prominent stone base with two bands and quoins. The windows have flat brick arches with stone keys and casements. A window in the first bay of the ground floor has been blocked and replaced with a three-light casement. A central hipped dormer window is present on the roof. A late 20th-century stone gabled porch has been added. Windows at the returns and in the rear wing are mostly two-light ovolo-mullioned windows, some without mullions; two have been converted into entrances. Brick gable-end stacks project from the attic and are corbelled. Date stones are present: one on the right return reads “BB EB AD/1612/RB EF” (referring to the Ball family), and another on the entrance facade reads “GBE/1731”.
Local climate
Irby 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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