Middle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Middle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
scattered-landing-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wychavon
Constituency
West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1959
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Middle Farmhouse, Beckford Road, Ashton Under Hill, WR11 7SX
OS grid reference
SO 997 376
Coordinates
52.03697, -2.00492
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Middle Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 17th century and was altered and extended around 1800 and in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a plain tiled roof. It has an L-shaped plan, with the original 17th-century section aligned east to west, featuring a large external chimney and a bread oven on the north side. This original part was refronted by a large two-bay west range, which includes external chimneys with offsets and moulded cappings—one at the north gable end and the other on the west front elevation.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar. The west front elevation features windows and an entrance that have hoodmoulds with returns. The windows are all 20th-century casements, with two three-light windows on the ground floor and three two-light windows on the first floor. The central entrance has a 4-centred head, relief carvings in the spandrels, and a 20th-century door. There are attic lights in the gable ends, and the south gable end retains its ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. A mid-19th-century single-storey kitchen wing is attached to the original range on the southeast side. Inside, the original part retains its timber-framed west wall, and there is a large fireplace in this section and at the north end of the front west range.

Local climate

Middle Farmhouse 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 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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