Ford Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Ford Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- sacred-tallow-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford Old Hall, Grindon, Staffordshire Moorlands, ST13 7RW
- OS grid reference
- SK 064 539
- Coordinates
- 53.08307, -1.9046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Old Hall is a 17th-century house built from coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a clay tile roof. It features stacks made of ashlar and engineering brick. The building is designed in the local vernacular style and has a three-room plan, consisting of a central hall, a service bay to the west, and a parlour bay to the east. There are gable end stacks for both the parlour and service rooms, with the main stack located at the west end of the hall, adjacent to a through-passage.
The house is two storeys high, with a gable over the best bedroom situated to the right of the center. It has three windows that are mullioned, featuring rebated frames, chamfered mullions, and straight hood moulds. The windows in the hall and parlour have four lights, while the ground floor window on the left side (service area) has two lights. There is a casement window on the first floor to the left and a doorway on the left with chamfered jambs and a lintel.
Inside, the hall fireplace has a corbelled lintel, and two raised cruck trusses extend from the first floor level.
Local climate
Ford Old Hall receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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