Cold Arbour Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Farmhouse, house. 1 related planning application.
Cold Arbour Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-sandstone-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse, house
- Address
- Cold Arbour Farmhouse, Clarke Lane, Bollington, SK10 5AA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 920 762
- Coordinates
- 53.28329, -2.11998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cold Arbour Farmhouse is a former farmhouse that has origins dating back to the 16th century, with additions from the 17th century and alterations made in the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of coursed, squared buff sandstone rubble and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof, a stone ridge, and both a brick and a stone chimney. It has an L-shaped plan with an internal cross passage and a former farm building to the right.
The north front is two stories high and has three bays. It features rough stone cambered heads with a prominent keystone in the end bays. The lower storeys have 4-light fixed small pane iron casements, along with smaller 6-light openings. There is a similar blocked opening above to the left. Near the center, there is an 8-panelled door, partly decorated with moulded hexagons, set under a stone lintel. Above this door is a mullioned and transomed iron window with small panes, also under a cambered stone head. To the left, the gabled parlour wing has been extended to the barn and includes a small circular light.
Inside, the rooms to the left of the cross passage feature exposed small-framed timber partitions. The main room has a massive chamfered beam with carved stops, while other rooms have lighter chamfered beams with flat stops. There is a mid-18th century turned baluster stair in the cross passage and part of a stone ladder leading to the former hayloft.
Local climate
Cold Arbour Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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