Charles Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Farmhouse.

Charles Head Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crooked-niche-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Charles Head Farmhouse, Rainow, Cheshire East
OS grid reference
SJ 979 787
Coordinates
53.30585, -2.03277
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Charles Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 18th century and major changes in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed buff sandstone blocks and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof, complete with a stone ridge and two stone chimneys. The building has an L-shaped plan and is two stories high with a three-bay north front. The end bays contain 20th-century small pane windows with rock-faced lintels, and a similar lintel is found above the 20th-century door. At the rear, there is a three-light square-sectioned mullion window with a dovecote above, along with a two-light rebated chamfered stone mullion visible from the kitchen of Charles Head House.

Inside, the farmhouse has a three-room plan. The parlour features an ovolo-moulded ceiling beam and a fireplace with a bead-moulded heavy stone lintel. Behind the fireplace, there are remains of an oven, and some chamfered beams can be seen upstairs. A date of 1591 was reportedly discovered during repairs to another fireplace.

The farmhouse is joined to and was formerly interconnected with Charles Head House. A 20th-century single-storey extension to the right is not included in the listing.

Local climate

Charles Head Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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