Birshaw House is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1987. House.
Birshaw House
- WRENN ID
- half-postern-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birshaw House, Oldham Road, Shaw and Crompton
- OS grid reference
- SD 937 081
- Coordinates
- 53.56955, -2.09533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birshaw House is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of Oldham Road in Crompton. It is constructed from dressed stone and features a slate roof. The building has a double-depth central-staircase plan, consisting of three bays and two storeys. Notable architectural elements include a plinth, rusticated quoins, and an eaves cornice. The central door is adorned with an ornate radial fanlight and a flat hood supported by consoles. There are two ground-floor and three first-floor windows, all with square-cut stone surrounds and sash windows that lack glazing bars, although one window has been replaced with a 20th-century casement. The house has a hipped roof and four tall chimney stacks positioned on the side walls. The side elevations also feature similar windows.
Local climate
Birshaw House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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