Diamond Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Farmhouse, barn. 1 related planning application.
Diamond Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- seventh-minaret-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Diamond Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Saughall Road, CH46 5ND
- OS grid reference
- SJ 253 887
- Coordinates
- 53.39044, -3.12381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Diamond Farmhouse and the attached barn date from 1728, as indicated by the datestone. The farmhouse is built of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The structure features a stone base, a band over the ground floor, and a top band, with quoins at the corners. The windows have gauged-brick cambered arches and are sashed with glazing bars. The entrance has a segmental head and there are gable-end stacks.
The attached barn has three bays and includes a blocked entrance with an inserted window and splayed cheeks. The first bay also has a blocked entrance with a gauged-brick cambered arch. The gable-end of the barn features ventilation slots and pitching eyes. The rear of the barn has a stone base and an entrance with a segmental head, along with king post trusses.
Local climate
Diamond Farmhouse and Attached Barn 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 — 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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