Hornspike Road Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Hornspike Road Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-hinge-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hornspike Road Farmhouse, Whixall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 481 341
- Coordinates
- 52.90224, -2.77206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hornspike Road Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was partly remodeled and extended in the late 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a roughcast timber frame set on a high red brick plinth with a mixed bond, along with red brick additions, and is topped with slate roofs. The original house consists of three framed bays, which were extended by one bay to the right, and the eaves were raised in the late 18th century.
The building has two storeys and a dentilled eaves cornice. Late 19th-century casement windows are found on each floor to the left and right of a central boarded door, which is sheltered by a gabled hood on the 17th-century section. The 18th-century addition includes a cast-iron fixed-light window directly below the eaves and two small 20th-century casements on the ground floor. There are integral end stacks on the 17th-century part and to the right of the 18th-century addition.
At the rear of the 17th-century section, there is a two-storey outshut with its back wall rebuilt in 19th-century brick. Inside, the left ground-floor room features a chamfered cross beam with heavy joists, while the right ground-floor room of the 17th-century part has a chamfered spine beam with ogee stops and heavy joists. A straight-flight staircase is located between the two rooms. The timber frame is visible beneath wallpaper on the first floor, including in the cross walls. The interior also includes plank doors with strap hinges and original floorboards.
Local climate
Hornspike Road 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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