Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Farmhouse.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-bronze-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2000
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Wheathill
- OS grid reference
- SO 615 830
- Coordinates
- 52.44376, -2.56677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions from the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with brick dressings, and features painted timber-frame with brick infill panels on the rear. The roofs are covered with plain tiles. The main range includes a large stone projecting eaves stack with a 19th-century stepped brick shaft and a partly projecting 19th-century brick gable-end stack. The main range consists of two framed bays with a 19th-century end extension and a 19th-century cross wing.
The exterior is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar. The entrance front is located on the north-west side of the cross wing, featuring a plain boarded door set in a lean-to extension that masks the ground floor of the cross wing. There are two gabled semi-dormers situated between square framing with brick infill. To the right is the main range, and to the left is a single-storey gabled extension that projects from the lean-to.
On the cross wing gable end, there is a two-light casement window at the first floor and a three-light casement window below, both with brick segmental arches. The rear of the cross wing (south-east) has a three-window range of two-light casements, all with 20th-century concrete lintels, and the right window on each floor is blocked with brick. There is a two-light cellar casement to the right. On the left is the gable end of the main range, which features a two-light casement at the first floor, a three-light casement at the ground floor, and a single-light attic casement.
The side wall of the main range to the north-west has two bays of square framing, two panels high at the first floor, with a girding beam, studs with middle rails, braces at truss posts, and a two-light casement. The framing continues behind the stone stack to the right, where there is a two-light casement with a brick segmental lintel set in the ground-floor stone rubble wall. To the left is a one-bay 19th-century end extension with brick segmental arches over casements with moulded brick sills, along with a blank gable return and rear walls.
Inside, there are deep chamfered bridging beams and paired dragon beams in the framed bays at the ground floor.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse 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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