Higher Windy Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Farmhouse, barn. 1 related planning application.
Higher Windy Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- winter-corner-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 945 165
- Coordinates
- 53.64548, -2.08416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Windy Bank is a farmhouse and adjoining barn, dating from the late 17th century with alterations from the 18th century and a 19th-century barn. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The farmhouse is a two-bay, two-storey structure with the barn located to the right. It has quoins and a projecting plinth. The central porch includes a cyma-moulded door surround, an obtuse-angled lintel, and a coped parapet with corner dies, which is similar to the band at Old Bent House, dated 1691 and built by Joseph Buckley.
The right bay of the farmhouse is obscured by a later outshut addition that contains one and three-light flat-faced windows. The left bay features a four-light flat-faced mullion window on each floor, although one light is blocked. It also retains a hoodmould from a former 17th-century window. The gable chimney stacks are set diagonally, with the right one projecting. The right gable has two double-chamfered, two-light windows. The rear of the farmhouse, which has raised eaves, is obscured by a large addition.
The barn is built from watershot stone and includes a round-headed cart entry, a segmental-headed shippon door, and various other door and window openings.
Local climate
Higher Windy Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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