Pickhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 1963. Farmhouse.

Pickhill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
peeling-lead-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 June 1963
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Pickhill Farmhouse, Sesswick
OS grid reference
SJ 391 477
Coordinates
53.02394, -2.90843
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pickhill Farmhouse is a 16th century farmhouse that has undergone later alterations and additions, designed in an H-plan. The main part of the house is built from local brown sandstone, laid randomly, with dressed quoins on the south side, while the northern section is made of brick. At the rear, there is a small central area featuring timber-framing with brick infilling and a blocked stone mullioned window on the first floor. The farmhouse is two-storeys high, topped with a slate roof and brick chimney stacks, and has recent casement windows.

An internal inspection was not possible during the 1996 survey, but a previous survey noted that the interior included large chimneys and a heavy beam above a wide fireplace, which has an arch worked for a doorway on the side. There are wide boarded cupboard doors with old strap hinges, two plain staircases (one of which is partly winding and wide), and the first floor retains original purlins along with plastered beams in the stone section.

Local climate

Pickhill Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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