Moreton below Farmhouse (also known as Lower Moreton Farm) is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1995. Farmhouse.

Moreton below Farmhouse (also known as Lower Moreton Farm)

WRENN ID
deep-pewter-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 February 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Moreton below Farmhouse (also known as Lower Moreton Farm), Ruabon
OS grid reference
SJ 321 447
Coordinates
52.99582, -3.01291
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Moreton below Farmhouse, also known as Lower Moreton Farm, is a two-storey building constructed from red brick, slate, render, and sandstone rubble, featuring an irregular plan. The front elevation, dating from the 19th century, is symmetrical with a central porch and a chimney at each end, along with altered 19th-century windows. The right-hand return has a rendered gable, a porch with a 19th-century door, a late 19th-century extension, and to the right of this, there is a door, window, dormer, and external stack, all of which are later additions. A large brick stack rises left of the centre of the range. The rear elevation is made of sandstone rubble with red brick, and the left-hand return includes extensions from the 19th century and later.

Inside, the front room features a heavy chamfered and stopped transverse bridging beam, with secondary beams that are also chamfered and stopped. There is an 18th-century stone fireplace with a cambered bressummer. The rear room has a heavy chamfered and stopped obverse beam, and exposed timber framing in roughly square panels can be seen in the rear and side walls. The doors are generally simple panel or plank doors, with some featuring H-shaped hinges. The staircase is located in the extension to the side from the 19th century. The upper floor was not fully accessible at the time of inspection.

Local climate

Moreton below Farmhouse (also known as Lower Moreton Farm) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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