8, Fairfield Square is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1966. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
8, Fairfield Square
- WRENN ID
- outer-nave-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 8, Fairfield Square, M43 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 902 977
- Coordinates
- 53.47599, -2.14899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Fairfield Square is a house built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick in a header bond pattern and features a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with three bays and stands two storeys high. The symmetrical front has a central four-panel door framed by an architrave and topped with a three-pane over-light. There are two four-pane sash windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, all with stone sills and cambered brick arches on the ground floor. The house also has brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
8, Fairfield Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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