Megcrofts is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Farmhouse.
Megcrofts
- WRENN ID
- eastward-sandstone-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Megcrofts, Bottom Lane, Ipstones
- OS grid reference
- SK 024 505
- Coordinates
- 53.05212, -1.96457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Megcrofts is an early 19th-century farmhouse located on Bottom Lane in Ipstones. The building is constructed of coursed dressed and squared stone, topped with a tiled roof that features verge parapets and end stacks made of ashlar integrated into the verges. It has an L-shaped plan and is two stories high with a three-window front. The windows are glazing bar sashes, and there is a flush gable at the right-hand end. A central porch, which has a flat roof and is parapeted, sits beneath a window band that is banded above and below the parapet, featuring a Tudor-arched entrance.
Local climate
Megcrofts receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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