Old Water Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. House.

Old Water Fold

WRENN ID
blind-foundation-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bolton
Constituency
Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Old Water Fold, Bradshaw Road
OS grid reference
SD 739 138
Coordinates
53.6204, -2.39572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Water Fold is a house dating from the late 17th century, constructed from dressed stone with quoins and featuring a stone-slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays. It showcases double-chamfered-mullioned windows, with configurations of five lights and four lights. There is a later central entrance with a dripstone above it. Gable-end stacks are present, while the right side of the house has a two-light window on the ground floor and a blocked three-light window in the attic. The rear of the house includes windows with three lights and two lights, along with a central two-light stair window.

Local climate

Old Water Fold sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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