Far Hey Head and No.2 Far Hey Head and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Houses and barn.

Far Hey Head and No.2 Far Hey Head and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
outer-bailey-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1986
Type
Houses and barn
OS grid reference
SD 933 181
Coordinates
53.6597, -2.10156
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Far Hey Head and No. 2 Far Hey Head, along with the adjoining barn, are two houses and a barn dating from the late 18th century and 19th century. The buildings are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a slate roof. Each house has one bay and three storeys, with the barn adjoining on the left. The houses have two four-light windows on the ground floor, five and six-light windows on the first floor, and four three-light workshop windows on the top floor. Most windows have flat-faced mullions, some of which are 20th-century replacements. There is a lean-to addition on the front left with a graduated stone slate roof and kneelers, as well as a small wing on the right gable. At the rear, there is another lean-to addition, possibly a loom workshop, which includes seven and six-light mullion windows. The central ridge features a chimney stack, and the left gable is rendered. The barn has quoins and a blocked round-headed cart entry.

Local climate

Far Hey Head and No.2 Far Hey Head and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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