Laureate's Place is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Laureate's Place
- WRENN ID
- quartered-tin-hemlock
- 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
- Address
- Laureate's Place, 2, Wood Brook (Off Wood Brook Lane), Saddleworth, OL4 4DB
- OS grid reference
- SD 968 053
- Coordinates
- 53.54516, -2.04923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laureate's Place is a late 18th-century house situated off Wood Brook Lane in Saddleworth. It is built of hammer-dressed watershot stone, with a graduated stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high, plus a basement, and has two bays. The central doorway has a square-cut surround and is flanked by six-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. A similar window, but of seventeen lights with king mullions, is located on the first floor. Gable chimney stacks are present. At the rear, there are six- and seven-light windows, and a blocked taking-in door.
Local climate
Laureate's Place 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 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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