Private Chapel at Hough Hole House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1982. Chapel.
Private Chapel at Hough Hole House
- WRENN ID
- wild-keystone-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1982
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Private Chapel at Hough Hole House, Rainow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 946 763
- Coordinates
- 53.28397, -2.08238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Private Chapel at Hough Hole House is a building dating from 1844, originally used as a Methodist and then a Swedenborgian chapel, constructed by James Mellor junior. It is made of coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone flagged roof with one stone chimney. The chapel consists of three bays on the upper storey, which is accessed by an external stone spiral staircase with a simple iron handrail. The entrance has a three-centred headed doorcase, flanked by rectangular windows that retain their original glazing bars. Above the doorcase is an inscribed plaque that reads, "With all thy getting get understanding 1844." A central weathervane sits atop a tapered stone plinth. Inside, there is a cast-iron fireplace in one corner and a wooden cupboard in another corner, which contains a lead-lined slit for a telescope, although the telescope is now missing.
Local climate
Private Chapel at Hough Hole 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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