Fence Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. Almshouses.
Fence Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- third-mantel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Fence Almshouses, Buxton Road, Macclesfield, SK10 1JS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 921 736
- Coordinates
- 53.25944, -2.1191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fence Almshouses are a set of almshouses built in 1895. They are constructed from red brick with stone dressings and feature mock timbering. The roof is made of stone flags. The building is single-storeyed and has two windows on each side of a central entrance. The entrance is highlighted by a wide segmental moulded stone archway, above which is a raised gable that jetties out. This gable contains a tall three-light mullioned and transomed window, topped by a coved half-timbered gable. The central entrance is flanked by two prominent windows that break the coved eaves line and are topped with coved half-timbered dormer gables. An inscription reading 'Fence Almshouses TUB FDB' is located below the central window. A weather vane sits atop the central gable, and there are axial stacks. The almshouses form a group with Fence House and Nos 88-92 Buxton Road.
Local climate
Fence Almshouses 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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