Wind Whistle Farmhouse and Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse and cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Wind Whistle Farmhouse and Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sunken-entrance-indigo
- 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 and cottages
- Address
- Wind Whistle Farmhouse and Cottages, Lane Head, Saddleworth, OL3 7EZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 989 032
- Coordinates
- 53.52636, -2.01713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wind Whistle Farmhouse and Cottages is a late 18th-century laithe-house, with a barn that has been converted into cottages. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a slate roof. It comprises a 2-bay, 2-storey house with a former barn to the right and a former workshop at first-floor level. Details include a projecting plinth and quoins. The front of the farmhouse features a central door with a square-cut surround, flanked by 4-light windows, and a continuous 13-light workshop window. An arched cart entry, now blocked, has a keystone, and windows and doors have been inserted to create the cottages. A blocked taking-in door is located at the rear, along with 2- and 3-light windows, and one cavetto-moulded double-chamfered mullion window. The roof has ridge chimney stacks.
Local climate
Wind Whistle Farmhouse and Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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