High Elms is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
High Elms
- WRENN ID
- eternal-truss-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- High Elms, 1, Upper Park Road, M14 5RU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 855 955
- Coordinates
- 53.45687, -2.21965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Elms is a villa, now used as offices, dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has a roughly rectangular plan with later 20th-century extensions to the right. Designed in a Gothic style, it stands two storeys high with a cellar and features three bays that are symmetrical. The central bay is narrower and slightly recessed, while the outer bays are gabled. The exterior includes a stone plinth, a string course, and stone-coped gables with raking parapets that have been faced with later cement.
The central entrance has a Tudor-arched doorway with replacement divided doors, a moulded stone surround, hollow spandrels, a hoodmould, and a panel with a quatrefoil motif above it. The ground floor features cross-windows, while the first floor has three-light windows, all with slender stone mullions and arched lights. The windows in the centre and to the right on the first floor have small panes, while the others have altered glazing. The building is topped with two ridge chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
High Elms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 3 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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