Handle Hall and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1980. House, barn.
Handle Hall and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- broken-tracery-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1980
- Type
- House, barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 939 179
- Coordinates
- 53.6582, -2.09245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Handle Hall is a house that was rebuilt in 1820, originally dating back to 1610, with an adjoining barn added in the 1840s. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It has three bays and two storeys, with the barn located to the right. The exterior includes quoins and an eaves cornice. There are two doors with ogee-shaped lintels and hoodmoulds, along with three, five, and three-light double-chamfered mullion windows on each floor, which also have hoodmoulds on the ground floor. A plaque above the door reads: "A.S. 1610 Richard Dearden Struxit, 1820 Jacobus Domum De Novo Restituit." The barn features a round-arched wagon entrance and has round lights on its right return. A ridge chimney stack is present on the building. The history of the area is documented in H. Fishwick's "History of Rochdale," published in 1889.
Local climate
Handle Hall 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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