Top O' Th' Hill Cottages Top O' Th' Hill Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Farmhouse, cottage.
Top O' Th' Hill Cottages Top O' Th' Hill Farm House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-chimney-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- OS grid reference
- SD 944 111
- Coordinates
- 53.59718, -2.08519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top o' th' Hill Farmhouse and No. 9 Top o' th' Hill Cottages are a farmhouse and cottage dating from the late 18th century. They are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with a total of three bays and two storeys. The farmhouse has a symmetrical front with four 5-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows, each with two mullions removed, arranged around a central door. It also has an eaves cornice and gable and ridge chimney stacks. The cottage has a lower roofline and features a door with a dressed surround and a 3-light window on each floor, also with two missing mullions. The rear of the cottage is obscured by a 20th-century addition. It appears that the house was raised from one to two storeys at the rear and has three 4-light windows and one 5-light window similar to those at the front. The buildings are included for their group value.
Local climate
Top O' Th' Hill Cottages Top O' Th' Hill Farm 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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