Johnston's Cottage and Farm Buildings of Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Cottage, farm buildings.

Johnston's Cottage and Farm Buildings of Home Farm

WRENN ID
endless-trefoil-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 1998
Type
Cottage, farm buildings
Address
Johnston's Cottage and Farm Buildings of Home Farm, Chirk Castle, Chirk
OS grid reference
SJ 266 382
Coordinates
52.93695, -3.09237
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Johnston's Cottage and the farm buildings of Home Farm are located at the northwest corner of a farmyard that is arranged in an open square, forming a U-shape that is partly open to the north. The southern range extends east beyond the enclosing eastern range, and a three-bay cartshed projects from the northern end of the eastern range to the east, creating a second open square that faces east. The eastern range features a covered cartway at the center of its eastern side.

Johnston's Cottage is constructed of stone with a slate roof and stands two stories tall with attics. It has three bays and a lean-to at the eastern gable end. The cottage has a central boarded door and a five-light cross-pattern overlight above it. Each main floor has three-light transomed timber windows with segmental heads. There are three dormer windows in the attic and gable stacks. Additionally, there is a secondary entrance located on the western gable end.

The farm buildings are similar in design, featuring rubble stone walls at the ground level with various openings. The western face of the eastern range is made of stone, which flanks the open side to the north. The upper level consists of timber framing with square panels filled with painted brick. A large cartway leads from the yard into the southern range, which includes a barn on the eastern side and a cow-house on the western side. The eastern range also has additional cow-housing to the south of the cartway and stabling to the north. The southern range extends east of the eastern range and includes some accommodation, featuring one brick stack and a lean-to porch. The northern front of this range is made of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and has a radiused voussoired three-centred arch. The central cartway of the eastern range has straight angle braces supporting the continuous wall plates. Above the cartway, there is an open timberwork lantern topped with a gilded windvane on a pyramidal roof. The cartshed, built in 1905, is made of stone and has three bays open to the south. The yard is partly cobbled.

Local climate

Johnston's Cottage and Farm Buildings of Home Farm receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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