Hearse House at St George's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1985. Hearse house.
Hearse House at St George's Church
- WRENN ID
- inner-pinnacle-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1985
- Type
- Hearse house
- Address
- Hearse House at St George's Church, Woodend Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 948 944
- Coordinates
- 53.44656, -2.07943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The hearse house at St George's Church was built in 1841, as indicated by the keystone. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The gable faces the road and has large double doors set within a Tudor-arched surround, which includes chamfered rustication and a keystone depicting a skull and crossbones. The building also has coped gables and eaves bands.
Local climate
Hearse House at St George's Church 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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