The Fold House is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. A Early to mid C18 House.
The Fold House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-keep-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Fold House, Swallow Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 988 006
- Coordinates
- 53.50254, -2.01951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fold House is a house that was formerly cottages, dating from the early to mid 18th century. It is built of squared rubble and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building consists of five bays and two storeys, with a single-depth layout except for bay 1, which is double-depth, and bay 5, which has three storeys. The original house comprises the central three bays and includes three-light chamfered stone mullion windows on each floor of the outer bays, with the ground floor windows recessed. The central bay has two similar four-light windows and a single-storey porch wing that features a gable stack and similar windows. Bay 1 is a later addition, featuring three-light flat-faced mullion windows on each floor, four two-light windows in the gable, and a lean-to garage that conceals a door. Bay 5, also an addition, has a later porch and includes two four-light and one five-light flat-faced stone mullion windows. The house has a total of four stone and two brick ridge chimney stacks. The rear of the building has similar windows, although some of the mullions have been removed.
Local climate
The Fold House 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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