The Wadhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Wadhouse
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-lintel-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wadhouse, Dunley Road, Rock, DY12 2YE
- OS grid reference
- SO 776 703
- Coordinates
- 52.33052, -2.32988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wadhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with some parts rebuilt in the mid-19th century and further alterations in the early and mid-20th centuries. It features a timber frame with rendered infill, an addition of random rubble, and a brick front with a tiled roof. The building has a T-plan, with the stem extending to the rear (northeast) from the 17th century and the front range from the 19th century.
On the garden front, which faces southwest, the house has three storeys. It includes a moulded stone cornice and three windows that are 16-pane 20th-century boxed sashes set beneath plastered wedge lintels. The second floor has 2-light casements. The ground floor features a central entrance with a 20th-century porch that has a stone-coped parapet, a semi-elliptical fanlight, and a panelled door. The rear wing retains exposed chamfered and stopped beams, with the framing consisting of six square panels high.
Local climate
The Wadhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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