Above Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Above Church House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-chalk-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Above Church House, 88, Church Lane, Ipstones, ST10 2LG
- OS grid reference
- SK 016 504
- Coordinates
- 53.05117, -1.97709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. This house dates from the 17th century, with substantial rebuilding in the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed red sandstone of ashlar quality, with a tiled roof featuring a cyma recta eaves band and verge parapets with pitched copings. A brick stack is located at the end. The house has two storeys, a gable-lit attic, and a cellar. The front has three windows, with a lower addition on the left-hand side featuring a dormer window. It has glazing bar sash windows. A 4-light chamfered mullioned cellar window is situated to the right, and a further chamfered and labelled reveal (formerly a 2-light window) is to the left. A 20th-century entrance is located within an extension on the left. The right-hand gable features a series of central labelled windows, all chamfered mullioned casements - with three lights in the attic, a large 5-light, transom window on the first floor, and a restored 4-light window on the ground floor.
Local climate
Above Church House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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