Bannal's Farmhouse and Adjoining Hop Kilns is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1952. Farmhouse, hop kilns.
Bannal's Farmhouse and Adjoining Hop Kilns
- WRENN ID
- scattered-dormer-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse, hop kilns
- OS grid reference
- SO 644 637
- Coordinates
- 52.27036, -2.52265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bannal's Farmhouse and the adjoining hop kilns date from the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. The structure is partly built of rubble with brick dressings, partly brick, and partly timber-framed, possibly reusing materials from an earlier building, with brick infill. The roofs are partly hipped and covered with plain tiles. The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan, featuring a main range of two bays that runs east to west and includes an external rubble chimney with a brick stack at the west end. There is a long intersecting range at the east end with an external chimney on the north side, as well as a large rubble addition in the north-west corner that has a prominent external rubble chimney.
The building is two storeys high, with an attic and a cellar. Some of the timber framing appears to be reused from an earlier structure and is exposed on the south side of the main range, showcasing two rows of square panels at the first floor level. The main south elevation features a ground floor canted bay window with casements, a three-light and a two-light casement on the first floor, and a central entrance with a gabled canopy, moulded architrave, and a six-panelled door, two of which are glazed. There is also an attic light at the west end.
The two hop kilns are located at the south end of the intersecting range. They are constructed of brick on a brick and rubble base, topped with gabled slate roofs and louvred saddle ridge vents, and have square plans with three levels. Each kiln's south elevation includes square openings at the ground and first floor levels, along with a rectangular opening at the second floor level. Inside, the drying floors are said to still exist in the hop kilns. Additionally, there is a moated site immediately to the west of the farmhouse, and it is likely that the reused timber in the farmhouse walls came from an earlier dwelling on this site.
Local climate
Bannal's Farmhouse and Adjoining Hop Kilns receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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