The Old Police House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House.
The Old Police House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-floor-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Police House, Church Street, Longnor, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 089 649
- Coordinates
- 53.18197, -1.86782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Police House is a house from the late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with chamfered quoins and features a blue machine tile roof. The building has an eaves band and verge parapets, with a stone stack on the left side and a brick stack on the right. The front is three storeys high and has three windows, which are fitted with glazing bar sashes that are reduced in height on the top floor. Originally, the door was located to the left of centre but has since been changed to a window. The current central door has a raised quoin surround and cornice, and it is a glazed 19th-century door with a painted pilastered surround and cornice.
Local climate
The Old Police House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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