The Rochdale Childrens Moorland Home is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1966. Farmhouse, children's home. 2 related planning applications.
The Rochdale Childrens Moorland Home
- WRENN ID
- idle-wall-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse, children's home
- Address
- The Rochdale Childrens Moorland Home, Nab Road, OL12 9PN
- OS grid reference
- SD 895 173
- Coordinates
- 53.65211, -2.15968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rochdale Children's Moorland Home is a former farmhouse and attached buildings, now serving as a children's home. The date 1756 is inscribed on a stone lintel. The structure is built of watershot stone with a stone slate roof and consists of a three-unit, two-storey farmhouse featuring a porch in the central unit. The attached buildings on the left include an outshut porch at the front and a wing with a substantial 20th-century addition at the rear. The presence of a cart entry, which is now a door, suggests that these were originally farm buildings, possibly a barn.
The farmhouse showcases various one, two, and three-light flat-faced mullion windows, along with a projecting porch. The three-bay building to the left has a central cart entry with four-piece square-cut jambs and a dated lintel. The projecting porch in the third bay appears to have been added later, along with a lean-to that features a three-light chamfered mullion window. The gable of the building has a three-light chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould at the first-floor level.
Local climate
The Rochdale Childrens Moorland Home sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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 — 2 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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