Tower Hill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Tower Hill Farm
- WRENN ID
- outer-zinc-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tower Hill Farm, 2, Rainow, SK10 5TX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 947 758
- Coordinates
- 53.27937, -2.07963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Hill Farm is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of washed, coursed squared buff sandstone rubble with a Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and two stone chimneys. The building is two and a half storeys high with a three-bay front. The end bays contain three-light wooden casements beneath rough stone lintels. The central bay has a door behind a wooden porch, above which is a two-light and a single light window. Rubble hood moulds are present to the sides and rear.
The interior features stone rubble partitions, with timber-framed party walls filled with stone flags. Most doors are original 17th-century five-panelled doors with reeded rails. A dogleg staircase has a simple handrail, square newels, and no balusters. Original wide boarding is used for panelling and the original roof structure remains.
Attached farm buildings, partly dating to the 17th century and including a shippon dated 1743, are constructed of like materials. They have a Z-shaped plan, forming a former cottage now used as a garage and two shippons. Rectangular openings have wooden or rough stone lintels.
Local climate
Tower Hill Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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