Slack Field Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Slack Field Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-moulding-wax
- 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
- Slack Field Farmhouse, Knott Hill Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 982 074
- Coordinates
- 53.56358, -2.02771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slack Field Farmhouse is a mid to late 18th century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a slate roof. The building has a single-depth plan with three storeys, two bays, and a rear wing. The corners of the structure are marked by quoins. The original central door has been removed and replaced with two 20th-century doors and a porch. Each of the bays has four-light windows on the first and third floors and two-light windows on the second floor, all of which have recessed chamfered mullions. The eaves are supported by shaped gutter brackets, and the gables are coped with gable chimney stacks. There are also two-light windows in the gables. A small lean-to extension is present on the left gable, and the rear wing, which is of slightly later date, features two and three-light windows.
Local climate
Slack Field Farmhouse 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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