The Slack Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Farmhouse.

The Slack Farmhouse

WRENN ID
wild-casement-quill
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
Farmhouse
Address
The Slack Farmhouse, Fawfieldhead, Staffordshire Moorlands
OS grid reference
SK 068 635
Coordinates
53.16898, -1.89907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Slack Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed from coursed stone with a blue machine tile roof and stone end stacks. The building has two storeys and features a two-window front with glazing bar sashes. The central entrance is fitted with a 20th-century glazed door.

Local climate

The Slack Farmhouse 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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