Highfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1975. House. 1 related planning application.

Highfield House

WRENN ID
deep-vault-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1975
Type
House
Address
Highfield House, Cooper Street, Saddleworth, OL4 4QS
OS grid reference
SD 961 047
Coordinates
53.53919, -2.05897
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Highfield House is a house built in 1850, as noted on the keystone, for Joseph Cooper. It is constructed from watershot hammer-dressed stone and features a slate roof. The house has a double-depth central-staircase plan and stands two storeys tall. To the left, there is a conservatory, and a small addition is located at the rear.

The façade consists of three bays with rusticated quoins, an ashlar plinth, a first-floor band, a first-floor sill band, an eaves cornice with a blocking course, and a hipped roof. Broad steps lead up to a wide central doorway, which includes side panels and a fanlight set beneath a depressed arch adorned with rusticated voussoirs and a keystone.

On either side of the doorway, the windows are framed with eared architraves and have panelled aprons that extend below the plinth. The first-floor windows are surrounded by architraves, with the outer windows featuring triangular pediments on console brackets, while the central window has a segmental pediment. The outer windows also have sill aprons with flanking console brackets, and there is blind balustrading at the centre. The blocking course has blind piercing with articulating dies. All windows are 20th-century casements. At the rear, there is a tall arched stair window with stained glass, and the interior features a dogleg stair with cast iron balusters.

Local climate

Highfield House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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