Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-banister-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, Barton Road, M28 2PB
- OS grid reference
- SD 748 004
- Coordinates
- 53.50018, -2.38136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brick and features a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with three bays and two storeys. The symmetrical front elevation includes a central eight-panel door, which is flanked by Tuscan columns and topped with a decorative elliptical fanlight. There are two ground floor and three first floor 16-pane sash windows, all with cambered brick arches and stone sills. A brick eaves band runs along the top, and there are sash windows on the side elevation. The house has a gable chimney stack and an M-shaped roof.
Local climate
Rock House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 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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