1-6, The Square is a Grade II* listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. A Georgian Apartments, offices, flats. 14 related planning applications.
1-6, The Square
- WRENN ID
- crooked-vault-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- Apartments, offices, flats
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 1-6, The Square, SK17 6AZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 057 735
- Coordinates
- 53.2586, -1.91573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1-6, The Square is a group of six apartments, now used as offices and flats, built between 1803 and 1806. The building was designed by John White and has undergone alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of ashlar gritstone with ashlar dressings and a Westmoreland slate hipped roof featuring grouped stone stacks with caps.
The main, north-west front has 16 windows. The ground floor has an open arcade of 16 round arches with impost blocks, leading to a recessed 14-window facade. This facade has three irregularly placed doorways with original six-panel doors, door fittings, and overlights, alongside 11 glazing bar sashes. The upper floors have 16 glazing bar sashes, and above those, 16 smaller glazing bar sashes, with one window being blind. The south-west front has 10 windows that are similar to those on the north-west front, though the ground floor has two doors and seven windows set back. The north-east side similarly features 10 windows, with one door and eight windows to a set-back ground floor; upper floors also have various blind windows. The rear of the building was extended and altered in the late 20th century.
Interiors of Nos. 4 and 6 retain a central hall with a staircase rising from the rear. Folding shutters survive on the first floor rear of No. 4. Doors are set within moulded surrounds.
Local climate
1-6, The Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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