Lower Tunstead is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Houses. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Tunstead
- WRENN ID
- guardian-loggia-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Lower Tunstead, Tunstead Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 7NT
- OS grid reference
- SE 004 044
- Coordinates
- 53.53681, -1.99429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Tunstead is a pair of houses, believed to date from 1730 and 1750. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a graduated stone slate roof. It comprises four bays and two storeys, with sections of single and double depth. The central two bays, likely dating to 1730, feature quoins and 4 and 3-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded stone mullion windows on the ground floor, one 4-light window of the same style on the first floor, and one recessed flat-faced 4-light window. The eaves were raised around the same time the rear outshut was heightened to create the double-depth plan. A 20th-century extension is set to the left. Bay 4, added in 1750, has a door and 5 and 4-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded stone mullion windows, along with quoins. A 20th-century brick lean-to is against the right gable. Two ridge chimney stacks are present. Various recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows are located to the rear, alongside a small lean-to addition. Group value is enhanced by the building's representation of vernacular architecture.
Local climate
Lower Tunstead 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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