Lower Tunstead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Lower Tunstead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chimney-primrose
- 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
- Address
- Lower Tunstead Farmhouse, Tunstead Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 004 044
- Coordinates
- 53.53667, -1.99534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Tunstead Farmhouse is a farmhouse that features the date "EKE 1710" on its door lintel, although it largely dates from the late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and has a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two rooms on each floor, with a loom workshop located on the second floor and a gable entrance porch.
On the south side, the farmhouse has quoins and features ground floor windows with three and four lights that are recessed and flat-faced. There are similar three-light windows on the first floor, along with a relocated four-light double-chamfered mullion window, and three three-light flat-faced windows at the workshop level. The porch has a triangular-headed lintel, which is also found inside the porch.
The rear of the farmhouse retains some earlier masonry, including a two-light double-chamfered mullion window and another similar window that is carved from a single piece of stone. There are also two three-light windows for the workshop. A flight of stone steps against the gable provides separate access to the workshop. The building has gable stacks, one of which is rendered.
Local climate
Lower Tunstead Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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