Limehouse at Ngr Sk 0415 7262 is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1997. Limehouse.

Limehouse at Ngr Sk 0415 7262

WRENN ID
endless-hearth-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
High Peak
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1997
Type
Limehouse
Address
Limehouse at Ngr Sk 0415 7262, Macclesfield Old Road
OS grid reference
SK 041 726
Coordinates
53.25059, -1.93926
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Limehouse is a late 18th-century structure made from quarried lime refuse and remnants of stone walling. It has a simple rectangular shape, open at the front and partially open on the right side, with an overhanging roof. There are traces of stone walling on the front right side. This building is a unique survivor of the limehouses mentioned in literature from the 1780s onwards. A description from 1797 notes that these limehouses often had three or four rooms and were typically built next to a limekiln. An example is illustrated in A Jewitt's "History of Buxton" from 1811. Additional descriptions were provided by the geologist Faujas St Fond and in Murray's Handbook from 1874. This particular limehouse is believed to have been occupied during the 1841 census.

Local climate

Limehouse at Ngr Sk 0415 7262 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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