Keeper's Close is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Keeper's Close
- WRENN ID
- tenth-hearth-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Keeper's Close, Smithy Lane, Mottram St. Andrew, SK10 4QJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 881 786
- Coordinates
- 53.305, -2.17879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Close is an early 17th-century farmhouse, later used as a gamekeeper’s house and now a house. It has been altered and extended in the 18th century and 20th century. The house is built of red brick in an English garden wall bond, with a sandstone plinth. The roof is covered with Kerridge stone-slates, and there are stone ridge and gable brick chimneys.
The building has a rectangular plan and a four-bay front. The end bays are gabled, with three-light casement windows and three-light stone mullion windows. The upper windows retain some original leaded glazing. A gabled brick porch has been added to the left of centre, concealing a door, with a three-light stone mullion window above the porch. To the right of the porch are a three-light casement window and a three-light stone mullioned window. A small, sympathetic addition was built in the 20th century.
The house’s plan is typical of late 16th and early 17th-century farms on the Mottram estate. It may originally have had timber framing.
Local climate
Keeper's Close sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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