Wood Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Wood Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gateway-reed
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SD 992 098
- Coordinates
- 53.58531, -2.013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Farmhouse and the adjoining barns date from the mid-18th century but have been largely rebuilt, featuring an early 19th-century facade and 19th-century barns, one dating from 1896. The structure is made of ashlar and hammer-dressed stone with a graduated stone slate roof. It has a double-depth central-entrance plan with two storeys and barns on either side. The facade is symmetrical, with a projecting plinth, raised quoins, square eaves gutter brackets, and gable chimney stacks.
The central door features a fanlight, a keystone, an archivolt, and an enriched panel above a moulded hood. There are four ground floor and five first floor windows with square-cut surrounds, continuous sill bands, and 20th-century casements. The window above the door has an enriched lintel and cornice, and there is a semi-circular-headed gable window. The rear, which has been largely rebuilt in the 20th century, includes two and three-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion windows, some of which are blocked. The barns on each side have segmental and elliptical-arched cart entries. A datestone from 1773 has been reused from elsewhere.
Local climate
Wood Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns 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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