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

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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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