Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
wild-plinth-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hall Farmhouse, Smethcott, SY6 6NR
OS grid reference
SO 434 994
Coordinates
52.59033, -2.83553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and 17th century, with some parts rebuilt in the 18th century and probably the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with red brick nogging set on a high sandstone rubble plinth, and is partly clad in metal sheeting. The building has been largely rebuilt in brick and sandstone rubble, with some areas rendered, and has a plain tile roof.

The structure is arranged in an H-plan, consisting of a central two-bay baffle-entry hall range flanked by two projecting gabled wings. The south front displays a chamfered plinth and plat bands on the center and right-hand wing. There is a 20th-century eyebrow dormer off-center to the left, which contains three-light wooden casements, and a large brick ridge stack off-center to the right. The windows are arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, featuring early to mid-20th-century two- and three-light wooden casements.

A boarded door is located off-center to the right, accompanied by a hipped-roofed wooden porch. There is also a boarded door leading to the right-hand cross-wing, which has a large late 20th-century flat-roofed addition in front. At the rear, there is a bread oven and a stair turret situated in the angle of the western cross wing. The gable of the western cross wing reveals an exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts.

Inside, the farmhouse has timber-framed cross walls and features chamfered beams with ogee stops, including a deep chamfer in the hall range. The right-hand cross wing contains a large open fireplace with a chamfered and ogee-stopped wooden lintel. The staircase features barleysugar splat balusters. The hall range has a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and V-struts, along with chamfered purlins.

The farm is part of a small village-center farmstead group that also includes a barn to the northeast and a cow house.

Local climate

Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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