Fern Lee Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Fern Lee Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-newel-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fern Lee Farmhouse, Meg Lane, Sutton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 948 699
- Coordinates
- 53.22619, -2.07831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Lee Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1725, marked by a datestone inscribed with "J J E". The building is constructed from coursed rubble and features a slate roof. It stands two storeys high. The entrance front includes a 19th-century gabled porch on the left, which has a round arch with voussoirs and a hood mould. Above the porch is a triangular re-set datestone. To the right of the porch, there are three and two-light 19th-century windows on the ground floor, and on the first floor, there are two similar two-light windows located centrally and to the left of the chimney stacks.
Local climate
Fern Lee Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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