Spring Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Building is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Farmhouse.

Spring Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Building

WRENN ID
twisted-cornice-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Gorton and Denton MP: Hannah Spencer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SJ 891 960
Coordinates
53.46142, -2.165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spring Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, along with an attached stable or barn. It dates from around 1780 and has been altered over time. The building is made of handmade brick, with the house currently roughcast and painted white. The original stone slate roof has recently been replaced with composition tiles on the house.

The layout is L-shaped, consisting of a double-depth, double-fronted house with a rear wing on the right and the farm building extending to the left. The structure has two low storeys. The house features two 3-light casement windows on the first floor, a plain doorway in the center of the ground floor, an altered window to the left, and an added bay window to the right. The barn or stable to the left has a wagon doorway with a wooden lintel, although the wall above has been rebuilt. There is a buttress offset to the right of center, with a former doorway to the left that has been changed into a window, and two altered windows to the right. On the first floor of the barn, there is a small-paned 2-light horizontal-sliding sash window in the rebuilt wall above the wagon door, a small 9-pane fixed window in the center, and a square pitching doorway to the right, flanked by diamond-pattern breathers. The rear of the barn has additional diamond-pattern breathers, while the rear wing of the house has altered openings.

Inside, the barn features a king-post roof truss with fishbone struts, scarf-jointed purlins, and original rafters. The left room of the house contains two large spine beams, one with a stop-chamfer and the other re-used, along with massive purlins.

Local climate

Spring Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Building sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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