Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal Former Tollhouse Adjacent to Fairfield Top Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. A C19 Tollhouse.

Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal Former Tollhouse Adjacent to Fairfield Top Lock

WRENN ID
hallowed-lancet-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1987
Type
Tollhouse
OS grid reference
SJ 900 979
Coordinates
53.47779, -2.15069
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former tollhouse adjacent to Fairfield Top Lock on the Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick and features a slate roof, with a flat-roofed stone extension at the rear. The building consists of a single room. To the right, there is a door topped by a semi-circular fanlight, while to the left, a window beneath a cambered-brick arch has been altered to accommodate the insertion of a door. The tollhouse has a corner chimney stack and coped gables with kneelers. It is included in the listing for its group value.

Local climate

Manchester and Ashton Under Lyne Canal Former Tollhouse Adjacent to Fairfield Top Lock sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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