Highfield Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1976. Farmhouse.
Highfield Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- second-latch-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Highfield Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Thornhill Lane, Aston, High Peak
- OS grid reference
- SK 191 841
- Coordinates
- 53.3543, -1.71439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield Head Farmhouse and the attached outbuilding, both now converted into a house, date from the 17th century. They are constructed of rubble gritstone with gritstone dressings and feature a stone slate roof, which has one stone ridge stack and two gable end stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a long house plan. Originally, it was likely a single-storey structure but was later raised, with a 19th-century addition at the west end.
The south elevation has ten bays arranged from left to right. The first bay is set back and contains a 19th-century casement window on each floor. The second bay features a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with a similar window above, followed by a 4-light window below and a 3-light window above in the third bay. The fourth bay has a 20th-century gabled porch, leading to another 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with a similar 3-light window above. The sixth bay includes a segmental-arched cart entrance, which now has 20th-century glazing, and is followed by a single-storey lean-to that projects forward. There are two additional windows on the ground floor set within former doorways and three 20th-century casement windows above.
Local climate
Highfield Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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