Arden Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Arden Hall
- WRENN ID
- riven-turret-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Arden Hall, Castle Hill
- OS grid reference
- SJ 918 933
- Coordinates
- 53.43652, -2.12356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arden Hall is a great house built in 1597, as indicated by the date stone, and was associated with the Ardern family. The building features dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. It originally had three storeys but is now in a ruinous state, having been so for over a century.
At the rear, there is a watchtower, and the front of the building has two remaining towers, with a third tower having been demolished, which would have completed the symmetry of the design. Each of the existing towers has three storeys and features 3-light chamfered mullion windows on the lower two floors, along with stepped 3-light windows with cusped heads on the second floor and stepped gables, although only the central one is present on the left side. The left side also has a central stepped gable, two storeys, and a 5-light stepped cusp-headed window with stepped transoms.
The rear of the building also showcases stepped gables and includes a central projecting stair or observation tower with an octagonal top storey. This tower has two 3-light chamfered mullion windows and four 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows on the octagonal stage, which is topped with a shallow pyramidal roof. The site is moated and overlooks the Tame Valley, making it an important example of an unusual and distinctive building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Arden Hall 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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- 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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