Knowle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1970. Farmhouse.
Knowle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chancel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Knowle Farmhouse, Knowle Lane
- OS grid reference
- SK 117 072
- Coordinates
- 52.66292, -1.8276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowle Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1820. It is constructed of brick with a pebbledash front and stucco dressings, topped with a tile roof and brick end stacks. The building is designed in an L-plan and reflects Georgian style, featuring three storeys and a symmetrical three-window range with a projecting ground floor.
The ground floor has a cornice and a top cornice, with stucco quoins. The entrance includes a doorcase with large antae that support a stop-chamfered lintel with weathering, leading to a half-glazed door. The windows have sills, stucco quoins, and wedge lintels. The ground floor windows have 20th-century glazing in tripartite frames, while the first floor features 16-pane sashes flanking a 12-pane sash, and the second floor has 6-pane sashes. The stacks are adorned with moulded brick cornices.
To the left, there is a small single-storey addition with a hipped roof, an end stack, and 20th-century casements. The right side of the building has segmental-headed windows with two-light casements. At the rear, there is a cornice over a two-storey wing with a double gabled roof and a modillioned brick cornice. The rear also has a plain entrance and segmental-headed windows with small-paned casements, along with adjacent windows to the front range, including a 12-pane sash on the first floor. The end of the building features a 20th-century garage.
Inside, there is a stick-baluster dogleg staircase.
Local climate
Knowle Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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