Grotton Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to West is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Grotton Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to West
- WRENN ID
- open-rotunda-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SD 972 048
- Coordinates
- 53.53995, -2.0436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grotton Head Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date back to the 19th century. The farmhouse features hammer-dressed stone with a graduated stone slate roof, while the barn has a slate roof. The house is designed with a double-depth central staircase plan and has two storeys. The barn is attached to the left side of the house and includes opposed cart entries, a shippon on the left, and a 20th-century addition on the right.
The central door of the farmhouse has a re-used lintel dated "MBIB 1656" with a chamfered surround and a fanlight. On either side of the door, there are three-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows, along with a central one-light window on the first floor. The gables are coped, and there are gable chimney stacks.
At the rear of the house, there are two 2-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows, one of which is missing a mullion, suggesting that the building may have been reused or remodeled from an earlier structure. The barn features stone quoins, a projecting plinth, and outshuts on either side of the cart entry. There are two doors on the left gable, one of which is blocked, both having chamfered surrounds and a dated lintel. The rear of the barn includes vents on three levels and a blocked cart entry with chamfered dressings. The barn has a 20th-century roof construction.
Local climate
Grotton Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 75% 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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