Wardle House and Whitaker Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. House, mill. 1 related planning application.

Wardle House and Whitaker Mill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-mortar-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1985
Type
House, mill
Address
Wardle House and Whitaker Mill Farmhouse, Knowl Syke Street
OS grid reference
SD 911 171
Coordinates
53.65047, -2.13578
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wardle House and Whitaker Mill Farmhouse is a mill and mill owner's house, now divided into two dwellings. Built in 1815, as indicated by a datestone inscribed "JW", it was constructed for James Whitaker. The building combines a 3-storey mill with a 2-storey master's house on the right-hand side. The mill section has ten bays, each with a loading door for each of the three floors, with a particularly large loading door in bay 6. Square-shaped windows are evenly spaced on the first and second floors, with a sill band marking the first-floor level. The ground floor windows are 2 and 3-light flat-faced mullion windows and the entrance doorway features square-cut monolithic jambs and lintel. A chimney stack is located on the right-hand gable. The building is constructed of watershot stone and has a stone slate roof.

Local climate

Wardle House and Whitaker Mill Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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