Farmhouse at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 2003. Farmhouse.

Farmhouse at Home Farm

WRENN ID
slow-balcony-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 2003
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse at Home Farm, Condover
OS grid reference
SJ 498 053
Coordinates
52.64399, -2.74322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse at Home Farm dates to the early 16th century, with alterations occurring throughout the 20th century. It is constructed of brick and framed walls, now rendered, with a timber roof structure including crucks and a tile pitched roof. The house is a three-bay building, with an entrance situated between the former dairy at the right end and the two bays to the left.

The exterior features 20th-century three-light windows to each storey, a gabled porch over the entrance, end chimneys, and a chimney to the left of the entrance.

The ground floor contains three rooms. The entrance leads into a passage where a wall is formed of large sandstone blocks supporting an open fireplace in the central room. This fireplace has a wide, heavy, segmentally arched bressumer supported on large chamfered blocks on each side, with some 20th-century stonework at the rear. Two chamfered ceiling beams run across the width of the house, with similar beams connecting front to rear. These beams are stopped at both ends and, to the left of the fireplace, a chamfered post with stops at the bottom has a matched stop at the top where it meets the bressumer and at the outside where it continues beyond the post. The joists throughout the ceiling also have stops. In the left end room, two chamfered beams continue, with stops at the partition but not to the outside wall; the joists in this room do not have stops. A small area of exposed wattle and daub is visible in this partition wall, and the base of the crucks continues down to floor level. The right end room, formerly a dairy, has a central beam and a segmentally arched bressumer to the end wall. A 20th-century staircase is located to the rear of the central bay.

The first floor has wide plank floorboards and two pairs of exposed cruck blades, which are pegged and have redundant peg holes below. Above ceiling level, the crucks have been truncated to accommodate the 19th-century roof structure consisting of light scantling rafters with a ridge piece.

Historically, 19th-century brick farm buildings form part of the farm complex to the east. The farmhouse is not listed in a catalogue of surviving cruck buildings in Condover, and the 20th-century exterior contrasts with the interesting interior features.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Home Farm 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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