Woodhouse Farm Foldyard Midden is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Midden shelter.

Woodhouse Farm Foldyard Midden

WRENN ID
spare-garret-pearl
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
Midden shelter
Address
Woodhouse Farm Foldyard Midden, Woodhouse Lane
OS grid reference
SD 858 148
Coordinates
53.63043, -2.21513
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodhouse Farm Foldyard Midden is a midden shelter built in 1895. It features cast iron columns, a stone slate roof, and clay ridge tiles. The structure has a rectangular roof supported by slender cast iron columns, situated in the center of a foldyard. It consists of one bay by two bays, with retaining side walls and a hipped roof.

Local climate

Woodhouse Farm Foldyard Midden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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