Barn Approximately 10 Metres North of Rowthorne House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1989. Store, garage.
Barn Approximately 10 Metres North of Rowthorne House
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1989
- Type
- Store, garage
- OS grid reference
- SJ 823 935
- Coordinates
- 53.43822, -2.26696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn, now used as a store and garage, located approximately 10 metres north of Rowthorne House in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. It dates from the late 18th century and has been altered. The barn is constructed of hand-made red brick in English garden wall bond, primarily in a 5+1 pattern, and features a roof made of corrugated sheet.
The structure is L-shaped, consisting of a 3-bay range that runs parallel to the road, with entrances facing a central threshing floor and an integral rear wing behind the third bay. The facade facing the road includes full-height brick buttresses at the centre bay, which has a former wagon entrance with a segmental-arched wooden lintel, although this opening has been blocked with matching brick. To the left, the first bay features a 9-pane window at ground level, while the third bay on the right has a loading door at the first floor, two diamond-pattern breathers, and various decorative cast-iron ventilators. The roof is hipped at the right-hand end.
On the left gable wall, there is a loft door accessed by external steps, along with a small doorway beneath it. The long right-hand side wall has a recently inserted garage doorway in the centre, flanked by cruciform tie-plates, with fixed windows beyond and diamond-pattern breathers on three levels. The rear of the main range includes a segmental-headed loading doorway in the centre, remnants of another to the left, and additional breathers and ventilators similar to those on the front.
Inside, the central bay, which serves as the threshing floor, features a large 2-centred arched opening leading to the loft in the north bay. This loft has a diagonal king-post roof truss, while the wing has a shallow roof truss with queen struts and an upper king-post. This barn is one of the few surviving examples of its type and date in the City of Manchester and forms a group with Rowthorne House, located approximately 10 metres to the south.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 10 Metres North of Rowthorne House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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