Cloud House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Cloud House Farm
- WRENN ID
- gilded-kitchen-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cloud House Farm, Toft Green, Congleton, Rushton, CW12 3QF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 912 639
- Coordinates
- 53.1724, -2.13302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cloud House Farm is a farmhouse dated 1612, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of ashlar-like rubble and features a Welsh slate roof, with a side stack to the right and an end stack to the left. The building has a 'T'-shaped plan, consisting of a hall and a parlour cross wing, which is unusually accessed from the parlour side.
The farmhouse is two storeys tall with an attic and has a three-part front on a plinth, featuring three windows. To the right, there is a slightly projecting 17th-century gable with a two-light chamfer mullion attic window above a five-light, cavetto labelled, mullion and transom window on the ground floor, with ovolo moulding on the former and chamfering on the latter. The set-back 17th-century hall range to the left has a range of windows offset to the right, topped by a tall gabled masonry dormer typical of the 17th century, which contains a four-light chamfer mullion window set well into the upper half, along with a painted datestone below. The two windows below this gable have six lights and match the pattern of the adjacent gable.
To the left, there is a lower, set-back late 19th-century wing with a single range of windows; the first-floor window is a re-used three-light, chamfer mullion and transom window from the formerly exposed north gable of the 17th-century house. A 20th-century boarded front door is located to the left of the gable, where a 17th-century window once was. A massive stack is set back to the right, featuring three diagonally-set top-shafts, although only one remains.
Inside, the parlour and hall have chamfered beams on the ceilings, and there is a square-framed timber cross wall between the two rooms. A quartered block staircase leads to the attic.
Local climate
Cloud House Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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