Westcott Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Farmhouse.
Westcott Mill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-granite-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Westcott Mill Farmhouse, Cheswardine
- OS grid reference
- SJ 709 289
- Coordinates
- 52.85705, -2.43323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westcott Mill Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse built in red brick on a red sandstone ashlar plinth, featuring a plain tile roof and an L-shaped plan. The building has three storeys and includes a plinth, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and parapeted gable ends with stone copings. An integral brick stack is located at one end. The façade has three bays with 16-pane glazing bar sash windows (12-pane in the center) that have exposed boxes, painted stone cills, and lintels. The central entrance features a six-panelled door (with the lower two panels flush) topped by a radial fanlight. The doorcase is adorned with reeded pilaster strips and plain consoles, with guttae supporting a moulded cornice that breaks forward over the pilasters. At the rear, there is a wing with a brick ridge stack.
Inside, there is much reused timber, including framing in the rear wall of the front range, ceiling beams, and a former ceiling beam repurposed as a lintel for a large open fireplace in the left-hand ground-floor room. The interior also features six-panelled doors with reeded architraves. The staircase has been partly altered, but the flight to the attic remains, showcasing an open string, cut brackets, stick balusters, a turned foot newel post, and a moulded handrail.
Local climate
Westcott Mill Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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