Nos. 51 and 53, Rochdale Road is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.

Nos. 51 and 53, Rochdale Road

WRENN ID
cold-chamber-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Nos. 51 and 53, Rochdale Road, M24 2PT
OS grid reference
SD 871 067
Coordinates
53.55696, -2.19615
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 51 and 53 Rochdale Road are a pair of semi-detached houses built in 1900 by Edgar Wood. They are constructed of brick with stone dressings and feature a graduated stone slate roof. The houses consist of four bays and two storeys, plus attics, with paired central doorways and a wing to the rear. They have a projecting plinth and stone quoins. The central doors include leaded upper panels and leaded overlights, topped with moulded lintels in the Yorkshire tradition and flat hoods.

The design avoids symmetry by incorporating a single-storey canted bay window in bay 4, contrasting with a two-storey bay window in bay 1 that extends through the overhanging eaves. The windows feature chamfered stone mullions and leaded lights, with transoms on the ground floor, and consist of either two or four lights. The houses also have gabled dormer windows and gable chimney stacks, with leaded casements set below segmental brick arches on the sides and rear.

Local climate

Nos. 51 and 53, Rochdale Road 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • 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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