Higher House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silent-pier-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher House Farmhouse, Wilmslow Old Road, Mottram St. Andrew, SK10 4QP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 873 788
- Coordinates
- 53.30649, -2.19112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher House Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, now a house and farmhouse, dating from the mid 18th century, with additional sections added to the rear. It is constructed of orange-red brick in English garden wall bond, with buff sandstone dressings. The roof is made of Kerridge stone-slate, featuring a stone ridge and two gable brick chimneys. The building is two stories high with a symmetrical three-bay front. It has an ashlar plinth, chamfered rusticated quoins, a stone band at the first floor, a plain frieze, and a projecting cornice. The end bays contain flush 12-pane sash windows with flat channelled stone heads and stone sills. The entrance features a Roman Doric doorcase with a semi-circular fanlight above a repaired six-panelled door, which is accessed by three stone steps. At the rear, there is a parallel range, possibly an early 19th-century addition, that includes a two-storey canted bay window and is now a separate house.
Local climate
Higher House Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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