Howard's Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. House.

Howard's Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottages

WRENN ID
carved-bronze-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1986
Type
House
OS grid reference
SD 985 024
Coordinates
53.51907, -2.02388
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Howard's Farmhouse and adjoining cottages are three houses built in the early to mid-18th century, possibly incorporating earlier structures. They are constructed of watershot stone and feature a graduated stone slate roof. Each house is double-depth and has three storeys, except for the right house, which has two and four storeys, making a total of nine bays.

The left house includes stone quoins, a projecting plinth, and a central square-cut stone door surround. It has 4-light windows in bay 1, 2-light windows in bay 2, and 4-light windows in bays 3, 5, and 7, all with recessed cavetto-moulded stone mullions. The middle house features a central door and 2-light recessed chamfered stone mullion windows in bays 1 and 4-light windows in bay 2. The right house has recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows, with the end bay recessed and featuring a square-cut door surround and 3-light chamfered mullion windows across three floors. At the rear, there is a small 19th-century range, along with a 4-light cavetto-moulded window and a hoodmould that may date from the 17th century.

Local climate

Howard's Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottages 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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