Wright's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wright's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rotunda-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wright's Farmhouse, Clayholes Road, Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 994 793
- Coordinates
- 53.31126, -2.00913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wright's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from washed, coursed squared buff sandstone rubble and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof with a stone ridge and three stone chimneys. The building has a T-shaped plan and is two stories high with a three-bay north front. The central bay projects slightly forward and has a lean-to structure at the ground level. There is a six-pane window with a rubble hood mould above it, along with a semi-circular headed niche in the gable. The right side has two similar openings with windows, while the left end bay contains a window with remnants of a hood mould. The right end bay features an ovolo-moulded doorcase with a flat hood above, which is partially obscured by a 20th-century glass porch. There are also remains of a three-light stone mullion with a hood mould above.
Inside, the ground floor comprises three rooms. A door leads into the dairy, which has two chamfered beams. The main room includes a heck post and screen, along with a fire beam that forms an inglenook. An ovolo-moulded beam is present in the ceiling. Notably, the interior retains the linkage and stone flywheel of a butter churn device that was operated by a foot treadle in front of the living room fire, which worked the float in the churn located in the dairy. This device was made by Goddard, a wheelwright who lived on the farm in the last century.
Local climate
Wright's Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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