Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. A C18 Farmhouse.
Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- scattered-portal-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SD 961 177
- Coordinates
- 53.65579, -2.06009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are a late 17th century laithe-house, with a datestone marked "H K 1691 N W," although much of the structure appears to be from the 18th century. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a slate roof. It consists of three bays and two storeys, with the barn located to the left. The farmhouse has quoins and a square-cut door surround that has been inserted into an earlier dressed surround. The windows include a 4-light chamfered mullion window, which is missing two mullions, three 4-light flat-faced mullion windows, and two enlarged window openings from the 20th century. The third bay is of slightly later construction and has a door that is obscured by a 20th-century porch. The barn to the left has a massive lintel over a cart entry, with a square light above it, and a door on the left gable-end. The eaves of the barn have been raised, and the datestone has been relocated into the later masonry.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn 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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