Farm Fold Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1975. Cottage.
Farm Fold Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ancient-plaster-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Farm Fold Cottages, 1, 2, 3 and 4, Altrincham Road, Styal
- OS grid reference
- SJ 836 835
- Coordinates
- 53.34826, -2.2475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farm Fold Cottages is a terrace of four mill workers' cottages built around 1860 for Robert Hyde Greg. The cottages are constructed from yellow brick in English bond and feature a Welsh slate roof with two brick chimneys. The design is H-plan, with one cottage in each cross-wing and two in the center.
The west front is symmetrical, two stories high, and has eight bays. The end bays slightly project under gables that have pierced barge boards. Each gable features five-light wooden mullioned windows with moulded flat hoods, and some gables display blue-brick diapering. The central range has similar windows on either side of board doors, which are sheltered by lean-to hoods supported by wooden brackets. Above, there are four three-light casements in raking dormers. The doors to the end cottages are located under gabled hoods.
These cottages are identical to Nos. 41-44 Oak Cottages and represent the third phase of development in the village. They are listed for their group value only.
Local climate
Farm Fold Cottages 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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