Well Head House and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House, barn. 1 related planning application.
Well Head House and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- gilded-iron-pearl
- 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
- Well Head House and Adjoining Barn, OL3 5TU
- OS grid reference
- SD 980 090
- Coordinates
- 53.57834, -2.03077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Head House and the adjoining barn date from the late 18th century. They are constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a graduated stone slate roof. The house is a single-depth structure with three bays and two storeys, with the barn located to the left. The building has quoins, and the door situated between the second and third bays has a dressed surround. The ground floor includes windows with 4, 5, and 4 lights, while the first floor has 4 and 12-light windows. All windows have recessed flat-faced mullions, and the workshop window features king mullions. There are also two-light gable windows, one of which is double-chamfered. An outshut is present at the rear right of the house, which has two ridge chimney stacks. The rear side features a 3-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion window, possibly dating from 1749, which is when the deeds are said to originate. The barn has a large door with a corbelled lintel and two doors at the rear.
Local climate
Well Head House and Adjoining Barn 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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