Knowl Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Knowl Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-moulding-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Knowl Farmhouse, Knowl Top Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 004 052
- Coordinates
- 53.54409, -1.99427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowl Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse located on the west side of Knowl Top Lane, Saddleworth. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. The original building was based on a 2-unit plan with two storeys, but additions have been made to the left gable and a late 18th century wing was added to the rear. The farmhouse has quoins. The front elevation has three, four, and two-light windows on the ground floor, and two three-light windows on the first floor; all windows have double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullions. A ridge chimney stack is present. A gable entrance is framed by a dressed stone surround, and there are two-light gable windows above. The wing to the rear features three, four, and six-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows and a blocked doorway. A one-storey wing extends from the left gable, with a 20th century brick extension to the rear.
Local climate
Knowl 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
- 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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