Bradshaw Head Farmhouse and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1967. Farmhouse, barn. 1 related planning application.
Bradshaw Head Farmhouse and Barn
- WRENN ID
- bitter-loft-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Bradshaw Head Farmhouse and Barn, Watling Street, BL8 3QJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 750 144
- Coordinates
- 53.62564, -2.3788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bradshaw Head Farmhouse and Barn is a late 18th-century laithe house located on the west side of Watling Street in South Turton. The building is constructed from dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has two bays, with a three-bay barn attached to the left. The farmhouse has three-light windows with flat mullions and an entrance with a plain surround. There are two gable-end stacks on the house. A stone-coped brick garden wall surrounds the property. The barn includes ventilation slits and an altered door, with a small entrance to the right. The left return has a lean-to extension, while the right return features a two-light window, a blocked window, and an entrance. The rear of the building is similar in design.
Local climate
Bradshaw Head Farmhouse and Barn 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings