Midgeley Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. A 17th century House. 1 related planning application.
Midgeley Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grey-floor-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Midgeley Gate Farmhouse, Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, Cheshire East, SK11 0BH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 995 663
- Coordinates
- 53.1945, -2.00889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midgeley Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed house dating from the early 17th century, with a south wing of similar age and a mid-19th century north wing. It is constructed of red gritstone squared rubble and features stone chimneys at the junctions of the south, central, and north wings, as well as on the north gable. The building has an irregular plan.
The south wing is two storeys high and consists of one bay, with recessed bevelled mullioned windows; the lower storey has a 5-light window, while the upper storey has a 4-light window that has been converted to a 2-light window on the east side, and a 5-light window with an ovolo-moulded label on the west side. The central cross wing is three storeys plus a cellar, featuring one window on each main storey and two small replaced cellar windows. It has a 5-light recessed mullioned window on the lower and middle storeys, a 3-light window on the upper storey (east), and a 4-light window on the lower storey with a cove-moulded label, along with an altered window on the middle storey that has a label cut back; there is a late 20th-century casement window on the upper storey (west). The north wing contains 4-pane 2-light wood casements.
Inside, the farmhouse features ovolo beams, chamfered beams, and unwrought beams, all made of oak. The walls between the south, central, and north wings are very thick. There are traces of an inglenook fireplace against the north wall of the south wing, and a Jacobean staircase that has been partly rebuilt in the 19th century.
Local climate
Midgeley Gate Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- 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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