Former Lord Street Methodist Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1994. Theatre.

Former Lord Street Methodist Sunday School

WRENN ID
floating-cobble-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1994
Type
Theatre
Address
Former Lord Street Methodist Sunday School, Macclesfield, SK11 6SY
OS grid reference
SJ 918 730
Coordinates
53.25458, -2.12292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Lord Street Methodist Sunday School, now used as a theatre, dates from around 1850. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and a seven-window range, arranged in a 2-5-2 pattern, with the outer bays slightly advanced. There are doorways located in the inner angles with the outer bays, with the right-hand doorway set in an added porch. The entrance features paired panelled doors within plain architraves. One of the lower windows on the right has been converted into a doorway. The lower windows have shallow segmental arches made of rubbed red brick, with paired windows in the outer bays. Above, there are similar round-arched windows. The building is topped with a modillion eaves cornice and has stacks on the end walls.

Local climate

Former Lord Street Methodist Sunday School 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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