Lower Rotcher and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Cottage, barn.
Lower Rotcher and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- buried-chancel-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- OS grid reference
- SE 074 138
- Coordinates
- 53.62082, -1.88859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Rotcher and the adjoining barn are late 18th century structures comprising a cottage, house, and barn. They are built from hammer-dressed stone with quoins on the cottage and feature a pitched stone slate roof. The cottage has moulded footstones and is two storeys high.
On the south elevation, the ground floor includes an entrance with stone surrounds and tie-stones, alongside a recessed 5-light stone mullioned window with a central sash and rounded arched heads on the lights. The first floor has two recessed 3-light stone mullioned windows, each with a central sash and rounded arched heads. The barn features a large central arched entrance with a small vent above it, as well as a small doorway with a stone surround and a large lintel.
The east elevation has a small window with a false arch and a porch leading to No 1 Lower Rotcher. No 1 is set back from No 2 and has a modern porch with an entrance and one 2-light stone mullioned window, although the mullion has been removed. The first floor of No 1 includes one 3-light stone mullioned window.
Local climate
Lower Rotcher and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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