42, Old Road is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
42, Old Road
- WRENN ID
- tall-brass-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- 42, Old Road, Whaley Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SK 012 811
- Coordinates
- 53.32752, -1.9826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 Old Road is a former farmhouse dated 1746, as indicated by the inscription on the door lintel. The building is two storeys high and constructed of coursed stone, topped with a stone slate roof and featuring end stacks. On the first floor, there are two windows that now have modern glazing, while one window on the ground floor retains its original hung sashes with glazing bars. Additionally, there is a modern gabled porch at the front of the house.
Local climate
42, Old Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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