Bockleton Court is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. A C16 Farmhouse.
Bockleton Court
- WRENN ID
- dusted-belfry-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bockleton Court, Stoke St. Milborough
- OS grid reference
- SO 578 832
- Coordinates
- 52.44545, -2.62214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bockleton Court is a farmhouse with a late 16th-century timber-framed core, significantly altered in the 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble stone with a painted timber frame on a stone rubble plinth, featuring rendered infill panels to the rear and side. It has plain-tile roofs with 19th-century ornamental bargeboards to the front and sides. Numerous brick stacks are present, some with distinctive double shafts arranged in diagonal and star patterns.
The plan is L-shaped, consisting of a main range with projecting gables and a rear wing. The south front has a five-window range, with advanced gabled bays forming windows 2 and 4. A raised attic gable is present in the right-hand bay. The windows are predominantly casements, with 3-light windows to the first floor, a 2-light window to the attic, and 2- and 3-mullion and transom windows at ground floor. All windows have restored leaded lights. The advanced bay to the right features a chamfered segmental-arched opening to an integral porch, incorporating a double ovolo- and fillet-moulded door frame with run-out stops, a boarded oak door with nail studs and heavy iron strap hinges, and side benches with 16th-century-style panelling. The return gable end to the left features a central stone stack with a first-floor hoodmould and ashlar coped offsets. A section of timber-frame construction sits beneath stone, displaying a moulded bressumer, girding beam, jowled post, straight brace, middle rails, studs, and a jettied tie beam with vertical studs at attic level.
The rear of the building shows close-studded timber framing, with a visible jetty to the gable end to the right featuring a jetty brace and girding beam. A stone gabled wall rises above the adjacent eaves line, containing a 2-light casement and a projecting stone stack. A tiled roofed stone outshuts masks the rear at centre and hides other original features. The advanced stone bay to the rear mirrors the front, featuring an ovolo-moulded oak mullion window with leaded lights at the first floor and a 2-light casement in the attic. A projecting rear wing covers the left side.
The west side of the rear wing features a two-storey, two-window range with casements to the first floor, only the left window being leaded. It also contains a chamfered 2-mullion window with partial leaded glass and a boarded door in a plain oak frame, as well as a boarded cellar entrance. The main range's right return gable and the rear wing's east side display further casements and a projecting tiled gabled storage extension.
The interior retains exposed ceiling beams and timber framing in the sitting room and kitchen.
Local climate
Bockleton Court receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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