The Stone House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Stone House

WRENN ID
muffled-roof-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
House
Address
The Stone House, Malthouse Road, Alton, ST10 4AG
OS grid reference
SK 071 422
Coordinates
52.9779, -1.8947
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Stone House is an 18th-century house located on Malthouse Road in Alton. It features ashlar stone with herringbone tooling and has a plain tile roof with a brick integral end stack. The house is aligned northeast to southwest and faces southeast. It is two storeys high with four bays, primarily consisting of casement windows. The ground floor windows on the left have 18th-century chamfered surrounds. There is a gabled porch situated to the right of the center of the building.

Local climate

The Stone House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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