Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. Farmhouse.

Rectory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-rood-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1953
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rectory Farmhouse, Church Lane, Checkley
OS grid reference
SK 028 376
Coordinates
52.93645, -1.95955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rectory Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with late 18th-century additions and mid-19th-century alterations. It is constructed of red brick sitting on a moulded stone plinth, featuring a raised stone band at the first-floor level and quoins on the left side. The roof is tiled with a steep pitch, adorned with a moulded stone eaves band and a verge parapet on the left, which has a ball finial on the kneeler. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a five-window front. There is one dormer, likely part of the original five windows, located on the right with a hipped roof and casement. The ground floor features cross casements with gauged brick heads, two of which have been replaced; to the right of centre is a 16-pane glazing bar sash, and to the left is the entrance. The right-hand bay has a steep stone moulded pediment above a partially glazed door. There is also a lower two-storey addition to the right, extending two-thirds the length of the main facade, which has a steeply pitched roof and dentilled eaves course, with two widely spaced windows.

Local climate

Rectory Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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