Back O'Th'Lee is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House, barn, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Back O'Th'Lee
- WRENN ID
- high-alcove-umber
- 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, barn, cottage
- Address
- Back O'Th'Lee, Saddleworth, OL3 5JX
- OS grid reference
- SE 010 075
- Coordinates
- 53.5648, -1.98627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Back o'th'Lee is a late 18th-century house, barn, and cottage located in Diggle, Saddleworth. The building was later extended in the 19th century to create a cottage. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. The house itself is a two-bay, two-storey structure, with a cottage to the left and a barn to the right. A central doorway is accessed via a 20th-century porch. A blocked taking-in door is found on the first floor, flanked by a three-light and a two-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion window. The gabled cottage wing has 19th-century window openings, and a 20th-century porch. The barn to the right features a segmental-headed cart entry and a shippon door. Ridge chimney stacks are visible. The rear elevation displays quoins, along with two-light and five-light ground-floor windows, and four-light and two-light first-floor windows, all with mullioned stone surrounds.
Local climate
Back O'Th'Lee 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- 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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