Old Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Timbers
- WRENN ID
- strange-foundation-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Cheadle MP: Tom Morrison (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Timbers, Robins Lane, SK7 2PE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 890 851
- Coordinates
- 53.36294, -2.16542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Timbers is a house of timber-frame construction, dating from the 17th century, or possibly earlier, with 18th century and later brick cladding. The roof is tiled. The house has a T-shaped plan with three bays on each floor, each bay featuring a three-light leaded window. A lean-to extends to the rear, and a 20th-century garage is attached to the right. A projecting, gabled crosswing is located in bay 3, and there are three chimney stacks. The principal architectural interest lies within the house. An inglenook fireplace with a bressumer beam and spere screen is present, backing onto a closed cruck truss spanning bays 1 and 2. Within the head of the "T" (bay 3), the space is divided into three rooms by two full-height box-framed partitions containing wattle and daub panels, dating from the 17th century. The roof trusses incorporate the blades of a second cruck truss as tie-beams, each having an arched doorway cut into their underside.
Local climate
Old Timbers 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 1998
- 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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