Ashworth Hall Estate Cottages and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1967. Cottages, barn.

Ashworth Hall Estate Cottages and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
stark-brick-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1967
Type
Cottages, barn
OS grid reference
SD 849 132
Coordinates
53.61573, -2.22847
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ashworth Hall Estate Cottages and the adjoining barn date from the 18th century and may be adaptations of an earlier building. They are constructed from coursed hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof, while the rear features brick and signs of timber framing. The two cottages flank an arched carriage opening leading to Ashworth Hall. The barn, located to the right, has two full-height cart openings with a lean-to between them and a cow house on the right side, which extends to a rear wing with a hay loft above.

The central studded oak doors of the cottages are set within a flat arched opening that has recessed spandrels, an ovolo-moulded surround, and a large hoodmould. Each cottage has two bays with casement windows featuring square cut lintels and sills, as well as doorways with monolithic jambs. Stone quoins and an ornate ball finial are present. The cottages also have 17th-century-style cavetto moulded mullion windows, which may be re-used, concealed on the left gable by a lean-to addition. The carriage entry shows exposed timber framing, likely from an earlier period. The barn includes circular pitching holes with moulded architraves, vent slots, stone quoins, a king-post roof, and owl holes in the gables.

Local climate

Ashworth Hall Estate Cottages and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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