Broad Shaw Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Farmhouse, barn. 1 related planning application.
Broad Shaw Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- second-flint-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Broad Shaw Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn, OL16 4NR
- OS grid reference
- SD 917 111
- Coordinates
- 53.59676, -2.12588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broad Shaw Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date back to 1651, as indicated by the inscription "GWAW 1651 ICIW" on the door lintel. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It has a 2-unit plan with three bays and two storeys, along with a rear wing that includes the barn. The structure has quoins and a door to the left, which is obscured by a brick addition. This door has a dated lintel, a chamfered surround, and an obtuse-angled head with recessed spandrels.
The farmhouse features five and four-light double-chamfered mullion windows, with two mullions removed from the former and a hoodmould on the latter. The first floor has similar windows with six, three, and three lights, each having one or two missing mullions. The building also has a kneeler and gable chimney stacks, with the right stack projecting. An arched light on the rear left, possibly a fire window, is inscribed with the letters G, C, and W. Other windows in the gables and rear have two or three lights.
The rear wing, which was once a separate dwelling, has various chamfered mullion windows, mostly altered, on both the front and rear. The barn features a round-headed cart entry. Inside the farmhouse, there are chamfered floor beams and a moulded fire surround with an obtuse-angled lintel in the parlour. The rear wing contains an 18th-century fireplace and a timber-framed crosswall. The barn has inclined strut roof trusses, one of which is diagonally braced, suggesting that it was originally a timber-framed structure.
Local climate
Broad Shaw 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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