Longcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House, barn.
Longcroft
- WRENN ID
- shifting-stone-heath
- 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
- Address
- Longcroft, Marshlands, Diggle, Saddleworth, OL3 5LQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 998 073
- Coordinates
- 53.56289, -2.00337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longcroft is a former house and adjoining barn, dating from the mid-18th century and possibly earlier. It is constructed of watershot hammer-dressed stone and squared rubble, topped with a graduated stone slate and slate roof. The building originally had a single-depth, two-storey design but was likely expanded to a double-depth and three-storey structure in the later 18th century.
The house features a door with a square-cut stone surround, a three-light window on the ground floor, and four-light windows on the first and second floors, all with recessed cavetto-moulded mullions. There are gable-end chimney stacks, one of which is rendered. The central door in the gable also has a square-cut surround, accompanied by one- and two-light windows and a small brick lean-to extension. The opposite gable has blocked windows. The rear of the house includes a similar door and three-, six-, and four-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows with king mullions.
The former barn, which predates the house, has a roof that runs at right angles to the house and features a small single-storey addition at the front. It has recessed flat-faced mullion window openings and two blocked double-chamfered lights in the gable at attic level.
Local climate
Longcroft 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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