Smallshaw Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Farmhouse.
Smallshaw Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gargoyle-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Smallshaw Farmhouse, Smallshaw Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 873 159
- Coordinates
- 53.63981, -2.19308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smallshaw Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1622, as indicated by the inscription "1622 ICM.....H" on the door lintel, which references the Crossley family. The building is constructed of dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It has a three-unit plan with a projecting two-storey porch, a rear wall fireplace, and a chimney stack. There is also a 20th-century lean-to addition on the left gable.
The farmhouse has a stone plinth and quoins, with windows that originally had four lights (now reduced to two), six lights, and four lights, all featuring recessed ovolo-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds with spiral stops. The central window includes a king mullion. The upper floor displays flat-faced mullions with arrangements of three, four, and three lights, with some mullions removed. The porch has a moulded door opening with an inscribed lintel, and the upper storey slightly overhangs, separated by a moulded band.
Local climate
Smallshaw Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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