St Michael's House is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. Office.

St Michael's House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1987
Type
Office
Address
St Michael's House, Stamford Street
OS grid reference
SJ 941 990
Coordinates
53.48793, -2.08962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St. Michael's House, formerly the Registrar's Office, is an office building constructed in 1869. It features a brick structure with stone dressings and a slate roof, designed in the High Victorian Gothic style. The building has an L-shaped plan with two storeys, plus an attic and basement, and six bays on the main elevation.

The basement storey is made of rock-faced stone and has arched window openings. There are stone sill and impost bands, along with a machicolated eaves band below a parapet that displays blue header diaper decoration in the brickwork. The fourth bay projects as a gabled entrance feature, which includes a porch on the ground floor supported by colonnettes, and a pierced stone balcony on the first floor. The first and second floors have three arched windows, with the first-floor windows featuring quatrefoil and cinquefoil plate tracery, and a multi-foiled opening in the gable that is coped. Other windows are typically single or paired arched lights with stone impost blocks and separating columns.

The attic storey has a gabled dormer window on the left, balanced by a large chimney feature on the right, which is flanked by smaller gabled dormer windows. The roof is steeply pitched and adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The other elevations are similarly styled. Inside, many original features remain, including panelled doors with gothic tracery and etched glass, a staircase with turned balusters, and plaster cornices.

Local climate

St Michael's House 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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