Owd Betts Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Public house.
Owd Betts Public House
- WRENN ID
- broken-forge-winter
- 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
- Public house
- Address
- Owd Betts Public House, Edenfield Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 829 160
- Coordinates
- 53.64065, -2.259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owd Betts is a public house that was originally a farmhouse, dating back to 1796, as indicated by the datestone marked "R M 1796" for Richard and Mary Ashworth. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a slate roof. It has a three-unit plan with an outshut on the rear right side and a 20th-century extension at the back, along with a lean-to on the gable and a porch at the front.
The front elevation is two stories high and consists of three bays. It has a 20th-century porch and the datestone is located between the second and third bays, framed by square-cut monolithic jambs and a lintel. Each bay contains a three-light stepped square-cut flush mullioned window on both floors, featuring a mix of sash and casement frames. There are three chimney stacks, positioned on each gable and to the right of the second bay, with each stack being cross-axial.
Local climate
Owd Betts Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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