Widowscroft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Laithe-house.
Widowscroft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-stair-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Laithe-house
- OS grid reference
- SK 005 972
- Coordinates
- 53.47215, -1.99313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Widowscroft Farmhouse is a 19th-century laithe-house, marked "RH 1837" on the keystone above the barn door. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a double-depth central-staircase plan and consists of two storeys, along with an adjoining barn and byre, all under one roof. The central door is framed by a square-cut stone surround and has a hoodmould above it. Each floor has two 3-light chamfered stone mullion windows, also with hoodmoulds. The farmhouse includes shaped gutter brackets, coped gables with kneelers, and two ridge chimney stacks that have oversailing courses.
To the right, the barn features a large barn door with a segmental arch, which has a carved and dated keystone depicting a stag's head. There is an additional door to the right with a square-cut surround, and the gable of the barn has three lancet vents, each with hoodmoulds. At the rear, there is a small two-storey wing that is topped with ornate finials.
Local climate
Widowscroft Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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