Numbers 22 and 23, Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 22 and 23, Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-ember-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Numbers 22 and 23, Top Farmhouse, Pitchford, SY5 7DW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 530 037
- Coordinates
- 52.62921, -2.69563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 22 and 23, known as Top Farmhouse, is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century, with later alterations and additions from the 19th century. The building is timber framed, featuring rendered wattle and daub along with red brick nogging, and has coursed red sandstone and red brick additions. It has a plain tile roof with a catslide over an outshut at the rear.
The farmhouse is designed in an L-shape and consists of three framed bays with additional structures at the back. It has one storey and an attic, along with a two-storey addition. The front features two gabled eaves dormers that contain two-light wooden casements, shaped barge boards, and finials. There is a brick stack located behind the ridge, slightly off-centre to the left, as well as an integral brick end stack on the right and an external brick end stack on the rear wing.
The framing includes heavy square panels, with three panels extending from the sole-plate to the wall-plate, and short straight corner braces. The front has four windows, including one- and three-light 19th-century wooden casements, and a canted bay window second from the left. There is an off-centre gabled porch to the right, featuring pierced scalloped barge boards and a finial, along with a door that has six flush panels. The left-hand gable end has a 19th-century gabled porch, a two-light attic casement from the 19th century, and an exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and v-struts.
At the rear, there are two gabled wings. Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered beams and joists with ogee stops, square-panelled framed cross-walls with shaped-headed blocked doorways, and a large open fireplace with a chamfered lintel. There are various 19th-century fireplaces, and the dairy in the outshut at the rear has low shelves.
Local climate
Numbers 22 and 23, Top Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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