More Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. A C16 Farmhouse.
More Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-glass-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SO 340 920
- Coordinates
- 52.52274, -2.97401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
More Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid 16th century, with extensions added in the late 16th and mid 17th centuries, along with later alterations. It is timber-framed on a rubblestone plinth, with painted brick infilling and some areas that are roughcast. The roofs are slate, and there is an axial brick ridge stack on the main range.
The building has an L-shaped plan, originating from a long mid 16th century range to the east. The northern two bays of this range were added or rebuilt in the mid 17th century. In the late 16th century, a short range of one and a half bays was added to the west at its southern end, followed by a three-storey gabled addition around 1600.
The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with the east front now featuring five framed bays. The first two bays from the south are close-studded with three cross rails and one tension brace, while the remainder is roughcast. The ground and first floors have 19th-century casements, and there is a 20th-century lean-to extension on the right side of the front. The south gable end is also close-studded and jettied at the attic floor.
A reconstructed timber-framed porch over the six-panel door is adorned with elaborately decorated bargeboards and a finial, along with the inscription "REPAIRED" above its outer arch. The range to the west is also close-studded and dated 1849, featuring only two cross rails and curved braces above the top rail. It has slightly projecting multi-paned 19th-century timber windows on both floors, a brick end stack, and a stone-clad gable that is now roughcast.
The west front includes a three-storey gabled projection with vertical panelling and V-struts to the top rail on the right, along with close studding on the right side of the main range. The two left-hand bays have three and a half large square panels up to the eaves, with light horizontal rails in each panel being later insertions, and stone cladding to the gable. The front also features 19th-century casements and a late 20th-century entrance porch at the angle with the three-storey gabled projection.
Local climate
More Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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