Higher Waterside Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Farmhouse.
Higher Waterside Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spindle-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Waterside Farmhouse, Otterspool Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 932 893
- Coordinates
- 53.4013, -2.10232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Waterside Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1733, as indicated on the datestone. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a 20th-century tiled roof, with a brick addition on the left side. The building has a double-depth central-staircase layout and stands two storeys high, with a two-storey addition to the left. The central door has a square-cut surround and a small overlight above it. On each floor, there are two windows that consist of 20th-century three-light mullion and transom casement windows. The farmhouse has brick gable stacks, and the extension to the left is covered by a continuous roof, with a lean-to structure against the right gable.
Local climate
Higher Waterside Farmhouse 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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