Rainowlow 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.
Rainowlow Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-flint-vermeil
- 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
- Rainowlow Farmhouse, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 953 771
- Coordinates
- 53.29117, -2.07076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rainowlow Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, although it has undergone extensive alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof with a stone ridge and two stone chimneys. Originally rectangular in plan, the farmhouse now has an L-shaped layout due to the 20th-century additions.
The south front is two storeys high and has two bays, with the right end bay stepping forward slightly. All the windows are from the 20th century and interrupt a projecting rubble band at the first floor. At the rear, there is a rubble hood mould.
Inside, the farmhouse includes a chamfered fire beam and ceiling beams. There is one notable two-panelled door with raised fields, along with one one-panelled door and another two-panelled door, both featuring moulding around the panels. One of the rooms serves as a dairy, complete with stone slabs.
Additionally, the attached east garden rubble wall contains two bee-boles with flagged backs and lintels. The farmhouse is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Rainowlow Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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