Higher Alt Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Higher Alt Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-alcove-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Alt Hill Farmhouse, Alt Hill Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 944 019
- Coordinates
- 53.5143, -2.0854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Alt Hill Farmhouse is a house dated 1764, as indicated by the inscription "WAH 1764" on a recut shield above the door. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and has a 20th-century clay tile roof. It features three bays and two storeys, with small additions at the rear and to the left. The central door has a moulded surround and a decayed flat hood above it. The ground floor has three and five-light windows, while the first floor has three, two, and four-light windows, all with recessed cavetto-moulded stone mullions. There are gable chimney stacks and a small brick addition at the rear.
Local climate
Higher Alt Hill Farmhouse 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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