Fence House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. House. 3 related planning applications.
Fence House
- WRENN ID
- standing-corridor-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fence House, Buxton Road, Macclesfield, SK10 1JS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 921 736
- Coordinates
- 53.25953, -2.1194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fence House is a house, now used as offices, that dates back to 1872. It is built of brick with half-timbering, stone dressings, and a stone-flagged roof, showcasing a Tudor style. The building has two storeys and an asymmetrical plan, featuring a projecting gabled range on the right and a lower wing set back on the left. A full-height square bay window with a gabled head faces the street and includes 4-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with strapwork decoration between the storeys. On the return side, there is a Shaw-style oriel window supported by brackets, which forms a porch over the doorway. Each floor has a 2-light mullioned and transomed window alongside the door. The wing beyond features two mullioned windows with four round-headed lights that create a continuous band on the first floor, along with a single 2-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor. A 3-light mullioned window is located in the gable.
Local climate
Fence House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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