Hobcraft Farmhouse Smalley's Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. House, farmhouse.
Hobcraft Farmhouse Smalley's Stores
- WRENN ID
- third-facade-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Hobcraft Farmhouse Smalley's Stores, Warslow and Elkstones, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 088 586
- Coordinates
- 53.12483, -1.86911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hobcraft Farmhouse and Smalley's Stores is an early 19th-century house and farmhouse that also incorporates a shop. It is built from coursed and squared limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a clay tile roof with coped verges and ashlar stacks. The building has two ranges set at right angles, creating a roughly L-shaped plan with rear extensions on each side.
The main two-storey range has a floor band on the right and is slightly taller than the two-storey range on the left. The main range features three windows with glazing bar sashes; the ground floor windows are set in rusticated surrounds linked by rusticated bands, with lintels incised as voussoirs. To the right of the centre, there is a half-glazed door and a boarded door to the left, both framed by rusticated surrounds with raised keystones and bracketed moulded hoods. Above the left-hand door is a sign board that reads "D. SMALLEY / GENERAL STORE / SOLE AGENTS FOR HOLDFAST BRAND / BOOTS SHOES / LICENSED TO SELL TOBACCO." The main range also has rusticated quoins, a moulded stone eaves course, and integral end stacks, along with a ridge stack to the left of centre.
The left-hand range has two windows with 16-pane glazing bar sashes and painted sills. There is a central door with a straight hood mould, and a single plate glass sash on both the ground and first floors of the left-hand gable end. A flight of steps leads to a boarded door in a low rear extension that connects the house to Hobcroft cottages. Smalley's Stores occupies the left-hand range and the left-hand ground floor bay of the main range, while the remainder of the main range belongs to Hobcraft Farmhouse.
Local climate
Hobcraft Farmhouse Smalley's Stores receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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