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Higher Hall is a farmhouse located to the south of Edge Green in the civil parish of Edge, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. [1]

Edge, Cheshire former civil parish in Cheshire, England

Edge is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of No Man's Heath and District and Malpas, in Cheshire, England, The parish included Edge Hall and Edge Green. The population at the 2011 census was 247. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form No Man's Heath and District, part of it also went to Malpas.

Cheshire County of England

Cheshire is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west. Cheshire's county town is the City of Chester (118,200); the largest town is Warrington (209,700). Other major towns include Crewe (71,722), Ellesmere Port (55,715), Macclesfield (52,044), Northwich (75,000), Runcorn (61,789), Widnes (61,464) and Winsford (32,610)

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

The house dates from about 1845, and is built on the site of an earlier house. It is constructed in red brick on a stone plinth, and has a slate roof with a tiled ridge. The house consists of a rectangular block with a wing to the rear. The windows in the front of the house are sashes, and elsewhere there is a mixture of sash windows and casements. At the front of the house is a timber porch on a stone plinth with octagonal columns, behind which are pilasters. [1]

Slate A fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, weakly metamorphic rock

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. Foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering, but instead is in planes perpendicular to the direction of metamorphic compression.

Sash window made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes"

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes", that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by glazing bars, also known as muntins in the US. Although any window with this style of glazing is technically a sash, the term is used almost exclusively to refer to windows where the glazed panels are opened by sliding vertically, or horizontally in a style known as a "Yorkshire light", sliding sash, or sash and case.

Casement window window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges

A casement is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side. They are used singly or in pairs within a common frame, in which case they are hinged on the outside. Casement windows are often held open using a casement stay. Windows hinged at the top are referred to as awning windows, and ones hinged at the bottom are called hoppers.

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