Hall's Farm Kennels is a Grade II* listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A C16 Farmhouse.
Hall's Farm Kennels
- WRENN ID
- small-turret-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hall's Farm Kennels, Church Lane, Swallowfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 759 644
- Coordinates
- 51.37422, -0.90986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hall's Farm Kennels, originally Hall's Farmhouse, is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the early 18th century and a 20th-century extension. The building is constructed of brick featuring vitreous headers arranged in contrasting patterns, topped with an old tile hipped roof. It has an L-shaped plan with a two-storey structure and cellars.
On the left side, there is a chimney with a central strip pilaster and an offset head that is carried around by pilasters. The building features a projecting plinth, a string course at the first-floor level, and a moulded and painted wood cornice with modillions. The sash windows have glazing bars.
The entrance front consists of five bays, with slightly projecting bonded brick strips running the full height beside each bay. These strips align with the string course and the heads of the first-floor windows. The second and fourth upper windows from the left are blocked. The entrance features a recessed six-panelled door with sidelights and a flat hood supported by cut brackets, topped with a semi-circular fanlight that has rectangular glazing. Rubbed brick voussoirs and a keyblock frame the door. Short sections of vitreous brick in a diaper pattern flank the central upper window, with defaced diamond-shaped tiles beneath each, marked with -G on the left and 1--1 on the right.
The west front displays bonded quoins, a string course, and a cornice that returns around two feet from the south front, with one bay of windows at the outer corners. Beneath the left bay are two cellar windows and some old brickwork. Inside, some timber framing is visible, along with a late 16th-century open well staircase that extends the full height of the house, featuring turned balusters and a heavy moulded handrail.
Local climate
Hall's Farm Kennels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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