Scout Headquarters to North of Wardle Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1966. Former chapel.
Scout Headquarters to North of Wardle Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bonework-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1966
- Type
- Former chapel
- Address
- Scout Headquarters to North of Wardle Methodist Church, Ramsden Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 911 171
- Coordinates
- 53.6504, -2.13498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Scout Headquarters located to the north of Wardle Methodist Church. Originally built in the early 19th century as a chapel and later used as a Sunday school, it features watershot stone construction with a stone slate roof. The structure is two stories high and has a central entrance flanked by a gabled side entrance porch. It has three bays with a stone plinth, quoins, and decorative banding. The windows and doors have semi-circular openings with impost blocks and keystones, including one on the gable end. All windows are fitted with marginal glazing bars. The side elevations consist of two bays, while the rear has three bays, all treated in a similar architectural style.
Local climate
Scout Headquarters to North of Wardle Methodist Church 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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