The Old Mortuary is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1977. Mortuary.

The Old Mortuary

WRENN ID
vacant-loggia-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 April 1977
Type
Mortuary
Address
The Old Mortuary, War Hill
OS grid reference
SJ 994 953
Coordinates
53.45451, -2.01044
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Mortuary is a mortuary building that dates back to 1775, with later rebuilding in 1895. It was constructed under the supervision of church wardens James Ridgeway and Aaron Heaward, and later Joseph Schofield and Edward Thompson. The structure is made of squared rubble and hammer-dressed stone, featuring ashlar dressings and a graduated stone slate roof. It consists of one room spread over two floors, with access at two different levels. The building has stone quoins and two doors with square-cut surrounds. An octagonal corner chimney with a truncated top is present, along with two and three-light chamfered stone mullion windows and a single weathered buttress.

Local climate

The Old Mortuary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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