Lower Shore Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Lower Shore Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sacred-chalk-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Shore Farmhouse, Higher Shore Road, OL15 9LP
OS grid reference
SD 925 169
Coordinates
53.64901, -2.11454
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Shore Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the mid-18th century with later additions. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features graduated stone slate and slate roofs. The building has a three-bay, two-storey central-entrance plan, with subsequent additions to the rear and right. It has a projecting plinth and a door with an architrave surround and hood. The windows are symmetrically arranged, featuring four-light chamfered mullions, although two mullions have been removed from each of the windows in bays one and three. There is also a blind light above the door, which has one mullion removed. The farmhouse has gable chimney stacks with moulded oversailing courses. At the rear, there are two late 18th-century additions that include flat-faced mullion windows, and a 19th-century addition to the right, which has raised quoins and 20th-century casement window replacements for the original sashes. A datestone built into an adjoining wall reads "RD 1622 ID".

Local climate

Lower Shore 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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