Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1959. A C17 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Church House

WRENN ID
secret-merlon-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1959
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church House, Croft and Yarpole, HR6 0BB
OS grid reference
SO 469 648
Coordinates
52.2796, -2.77857
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with some alterations made in the mid-18th century and restoration carried out in the 1980s. The building features a timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill, set on a coursed rubble plinth, and is topped with a roof made of tile, slate, and corrugated iron. It has an L-shaped plan, with a cross-wing to the south and another range to the east.

On the eastern side, there is a gable-end external chimney stack made of rubble, and an axial stack in the center of the cross-wing, which has a brick shaft shaped like a six-point star. The north front of the house is two storeys high and includes a gable-lit attic in the cross-wing on the right. The façade features two plus one windows, all of which are casements with two, four, and three lights. The ground floor has a three-light casement on the left with a plank weathering, and on the right, there is a 17th-century mullioned and transomed window with five lights and diamond section mullions.

The entrance, located to the right of center, has a 20th-century gabled and slated canopy above a ledged and boarded door. The framing of the building consists of four square panels high with straight angle braces. The gable-end truss has three struts to the collar and two vertical struts above. Inside, the property features exposed chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.

Local climate

Church House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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