Little Halston is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1994. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Little Halston
- WRENN ID
- vacant-copper-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1994
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Halston, Pontesbury, SY5 0UF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 411 069
- Coordinates
- 52.65689, -2.87116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Halston is a farmhouse dating from 1780, with extensions added in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, topped with a plain tile roof featuring gabled ends and a brick dentil eaves course. Brick gable-end stacks are present. The plan comprises a two-room, single-depth main range with a central entrance, and a long service wing at the centre rear, which incorporates stables and a loft at one end. A single-storey wing is situated at the rear right.
The west front is symmetrical, with three windows. The ground floor features tall, late 18th-century cross-mullion-transom windows with casements and glazing bars, set within original cambered arch openings. Smaller windows with 20th-century casements are on the first floor. A central doorway contains a circa late 19th-century glazed and panelled door. A left-hand extension has a cross-mullion-transom window, a plank door, and a brick dentil course above. At the rear, a long, one-and-a-half-storey wing is centered, with stable doors on the north side and a loft door in the gable end.
Internally, much of the original joinery remains, including the original staircase with stick balusters and square newels, doors, and apparently some chimney pieces. The attic roof is exposed, featuring large side purlins and common-rafter couples.
Local climate
Little Halston 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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