Old Hall Farmhouse, garden wall and gate piers is a Grade II* listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Old Hall Farmhouse, garden wall and gate piers
- WRENN ID
- crooked-forge-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Hall Farmhouse, garden wall and gate piers, Middle Mayfield
- OS grid reference
- SK 147 448
- Coordinates
- 53.00091, -1.78172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall Farmhouse, along with its garden wall and gate piers, dates to the 17th century and stands in Middle Mayfield. The building is constructed of ashlar with a clay tile roof featuring shaped verge overhangs, ashlar ridge stacks, and an integral end stack with grouped cylindrical shafts. The main house follows a three-room lobby entry plan and includes a dairy extension to the north, reflecting a local vernacular style.
The principal house is two storeys and an attic high, positioned to the left, with a lower two-storey dairy extension to the right. Gables are present on the left, right, and centre, each with coped verges on shaped kneelers. It has chamfered mullion windows set in rebated surrounds. Ground and first-floor windows to the left, right, and centre (except for a casement on the first floor right) feature four transomed lights. Other windows are two-light chamfered mullioned. Continuous hood moulds cover the ground and first floor windows while the attic windows have long, straight hood moulds. A gabled porch is situated to the right of centre, with a four-centred arch leading to a 20th-century glazed door within a square-headed doorway, also with a hood mould. The dairy extension incorporates a three-light chamfered mullioned window on the first floor.
Inside, the house reveals an exposed 17th-century close-studded timber-framed partition between the central and south rooms. An inglenook fireplace is found in the north room, and the south room displays a 17th-century decorative plastered ceiling. A set of 17th-century panelled doors, originally from the attic, have been relocated downstairs. The roof structure features 17th-century trusses with vertical studs between the collar and beam, double trenched purlins, and wind braces. A coped ashlar wall and square section gate piers topped with concave-sided caps enclose a small front garden, contributing significantly to the setting of the farmhouse.
Local climate
Old Hall Farmhouse, garden wall and gate piers receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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