Hough Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hough Fold
- WRENN ID
- stark-pier-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hough Fold, Hough Fold Way, BL2 3PU
- OS grid reference
- SD 749 112
- Coordinates
- 53.59763, -2.38065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hough Fold is a house dating from around 1700, constructed of dressed stone with a slate roof and brick gable-end stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. On the ground floor, there are double-chamfered-mullioned windows with four and five lights, featuring plastered dressings. The third bay contains a three-light casement window in what was formerly the entrance, which has a large lintel. The later entrance is located between the second and third bays. On the first floor, there are mullioned windows with three and four lights, along with a two-light casement window in the third bay. At the rear, there is a later wing with a 20th-century extension.
Local climate
Hough Fold sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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