Laureate's Place (Woodbrook Farmhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Laureate's Place (Woodbrook Farmhouse)
- WRENN ID
- shifting-corner-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laureate's Place (Woodbrook Farmhouse), 3, Wood Brook (Off Wood Brook Lane), Saddleworth, OL4 4DB
- OS grid reference
- SD 968 053
- Coordinates
- 53.54523, -2.04932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, originally known as Woodbrook Farmhouse, dating from the middle to late 18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a roof of graduated stone slates. The house has a three-bay, two-storey layout. A 20th-century porch obscures the central doorway, which has a dressed stone surround. The ground floor has five- and four-light windows, and the first floor has five, two, and four-light windows; all feature recessed flat-faced stone mullions. Square eaves gutter brackets are present, along with a gable chimney stack. The rear elevation has a three-, four-, and nine-light arrangement of windows and includes a lean-to addition.
Local climate
Laureate's Place (Woodbrook 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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