Valenciennes Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse, cottage, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Valenciennes Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- young-hammer-crow
- 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, cottage, barn
- Address
- Valenciennes Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Barn, OL3 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SD 977 071
- Coordinates
- 53.56117, -2.03547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valenciennes Farmhouse, cottage, and adjoining barn is a late 18th-century building located on Knarr Barn Lane in Saddleworth. The structure is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It consists of three bays and two storeys. Both the farmhouse and cottage have doors with square-cut stone surrounds. The farmhouse has ground floor windows with four and six lights, and first floor windows with four and seven lights. The cottage, which was built later, has three and four-light windows. All windows are fitted with recessed flat-faced stone mullions. The building has two ridge chimney stacks, blocked windows in the gable, and a taking-in door at the rear. The barn includes a segmental-headed cart entry and an opposed winnowing door.
Local climate
Valenciennes Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Barn 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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.
- 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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