Lower Cliff Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Farmhouse.
Lower Cliff Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Cliff Farmhouse, Higher Lane, Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 982 803
- Coordinates
- 53.32038, -2.02845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Cliff Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1671. It is constructed from coursed buff sandstone rubble with pink sandstone dressings and has a composition tile roof featuring three brick chimneys. The building has an L-shaped plan with a former cross-passage located behind the existing door. The north-west front is asymmetrical and two storeys high, with four bays; two of these bays are under a gable to the right. All windows are 20th-century wooden casements set under plain stone lintels. The nearly central doorcase has long and short quoining and a heavy stone lintel, with a date plaque above that reads TG (for Thomas Gaskell) 1671. Inside, the only original features are a chamfered beam with flat and tongue stops and an ovolo moulded beam.
Local climate
Lower Cliff Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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