Fold Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
Fold Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-corbel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Fold Cottage, Sandy Lane, Chisworth, SK13 5SA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 996 917
- Coordinates
- 53.42217, -2.00706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fold Cottage is an 18th-century house with later alterations, located on the north side of Sandy Lane in the parish of Chisworth. The building is constructed of rendered rubble gritstone, featuring painted stone dressings and a stone slate roof with stone gable end stacks and a stone ridge stack. There is a plinth at the front range. The house is two storeys high, with two bays and a double range plan.
On the south elevation, there is a 20th-century gabled porch with a stone slab roof that covers the original doorcase. To the west, there is a four-light flush mullion window, and to the east, a similar two-light window. Above these, there are similar windows arranged in the same manner. Additionally, there is a tall staircase window in the rear range.
Local climate
Fold Cottage 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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