Old Birtle is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1967. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Old Birtle
- WRENN ID
- riven-oriel-nettle
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Birtle, 1, Birtle Road, BL9 6UT
- OS grid reference
- SD 831 133
- Coordinates
- 53.61602, -2.25659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Birtle is a farmhouse dating from 1671. It is constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. The original 2-unit plan features a door opening into the house on the right, with a rear outshut, and a heated parlour to the left.
The front elevation has two storeys and incorporates a 4-light window, a doorway, a 5-light window, and a 2-light "fire window" on the ground floor, all with double-chamfered mullions and a continuous hoodmould. The upper floor has two 4-light windows (each with two mullions removed) and one 1-light window, with flush chamfered mullions. The eaves line has been raised by two courses, except at the left-hand extreme where a diagonally set chimney shaft with a stone cornice rises at the corner. A second stack is located as a ridge stack along the centre of the roof. Other external details include stone quoins, a stone plinth, and a coped gable.
Inside, the farmhouse retains chamfered oak beams and a large bressumer beam supported by moulded corbel. A bressumer beam corbel is dated 1671.
Local climate
Old Birtle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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