Knowle Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Knowle Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-trefoil-bracken
- 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
- Knowle Top Farmhouse, Knowl Top Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 005 049
- Coordinates
- 53.54162, -1.99326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowle Top Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house, incorporating some earlier work. It is built from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The structure is a three-bay, three-storey building with a lean-to against the right gable and quoins at the corners.
The second bay includes earlier construction, while the third bay was added later, followed by the first bay, which was added last. The second bay has a dressed door surround and a window, with a door inserted within a former six-light mullion window in the third bay, which also has a six-light window on the first floor and two blocked three-light windows on the second floor. The first bay features five-light windows on each floor. All windows have recessed flat-faced stone mullions.
The farmhouse has two ridge chimney stacks, along with blocked doors to the left and rear. There are two and three-light gable windows, as well as a three-light flat-faced stone mullion window at the rear, which is carved from a single piece of stone.
Local climate
Knowle Top 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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