Stone Bleaching Baths is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Bleaching baths. 1 related planning application.
Stone Bleaching Baths
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-fireplace-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Bleaching baths
- Address
- Stone Bleaching Baths, Hodge Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 988 934
- Coordinates
- 53.43818, -2.01876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stone bleaching baths, dating from the late 18th century, are located on the south side of Hodge Lane in Longdendale. These baths were used for bleaching and dyeing and are constructed from stone. They consist of three groups of baths that are terraced into the hillside, arranged in rows on either side of a deep central tunnel. This tunnel is covered by stone slabs in some areas and by earth in others. The groups include one with 30 baths, another with 6 or more, and a third with 14 or more, although some of these have been covered by earth. Each bath is at least 2 meters deep, with slab walls that are tenoned together and secured by iron stays.
Local climate
Stone Bleaching Baths 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 83% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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