Crofters House (Manchester and District Dogs Home) is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1975. A C19 House. 4 related planning applications.
Crofters House (Manchester and District Dogs Home)
- WRENN ID
- small-wicket-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Blackley and Middleton South MP: Graham Stringer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crofters House (Manchester and District Dogs Home), Moss Brook Road, M9 5PG
- OS grid reference
- SD 863 012
- Coordinates
- 53.50776, -2.20736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crofters House, also known as the Manchester and District Dogs' Home, is a house dating from around 1810 that has been altered. It features painted roughcast walls and a slate roof, with a double-depth, double-fronted layout. The building is two storeys high and has three symmetrical windows.
On the ground floor, there is a central doorway accessed by two steps, which has a rusticated surround and a panelled glazed door. This doorway is flanked by two large semicircular bow windows that are supported by Tuscan pilasters. These windows have sashes with glazing bars and are topped with plain friezes and cornices that connect to a straight section above, which protects the doorway.
The first floor has four-pane sashed windows, all with raised sills and lintels that are scored to resemble voussoirs. The central window is narrower and has a plain surround, indicating it may have been a former doorway, with a brick sill suggesting that the roofs of the bows and doorway might have been used as a balcony in the past. The house features a moulded gutter cornice, rebuilt gable chimneys, and a small skylight in the roof.
Although the interior has been much altered, it is said to retain a plain but good original staircase.
Local climate
Crofters House (Manchester and District Dogs Home) 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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