West Hill High School for Boys is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. School. 3 related planning applications.
West Hill High School for Boys
- WRENN ID
- burning-portal-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- School
- Address
- West Hill High School for Boys, Stamford Street, SK15 1LX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 957 988
- Coordinates
- 53.48654, -2.06583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Hill High School for Boys is a former house that was converted into a school in 1822 for William Harrison, a cotton manufacturer. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof. It has a central-staircase plan with five bays and two storeys. The exterior includes a projecting plinth, a first-floor band, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. There is an enclosed tetrastyle Ionic porch, along with four ground-floor windows and five first-floor windows, all fitted with iron glazing bars and ashlar sills. The roof is hipped. On the right side, there are a total of seven bays, with the fourth and fifth bays being advanced and featuring a large open pediment supported by giant pilasters. The interior has been significantly altered.
Local climate
West Hill High School for Boys 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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