Rough Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. A Georgian Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Rough Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-frieze-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Rough Farmhouse, Old Road, OL15 0LQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 955 164
- Coordinates
- 53.64457, -2.06918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rough Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse with later additions. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and has a graduated stone slate roof. The building features a 2-bay single-depth plan with two storeys and includes a later barn to the left, which has lean-to additions at the front and rear. The farmhouse has quoins and a projecting plinth. The entrance door is flanked by a 4-light chamfered mullion window, although two of its mullions are missing. On the first floor, there are two 2-light windows, also with missing mullions. The lean-to addition obscures the rear ground floor, but the first floor has two 3-light windows; one has flat-faced mullions while the other is chamfered. A small window with an arched lintel is hidden by a brick addition. The barn is built from watershot stone and features a cart entry that is no longer visible, as well as a later opening in the gable. This farmhouse was formerly used as a toll house for the Rochdale-Halifax turnpike road before the road was diverted.
Local climate
Rough Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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