Windy Nook is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1967. House.
Windy Nook
- WRENN ID
- burning-casement-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Windy Nook, 1, Thornley Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 967 040
- Coordinates
- 53.53327, -2.05024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windy Nook is a house and cottage located on Thornley Lane in Saddleworth. The cottage was added in the late 17th century or early 18th century, as indicated by "HS 1648" (Henry Shaw) inscribed on the door lintel. The building is constructed of squared rubble and features a graduated stone slate roof with a brick chimney stack. It has a two-unit former baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys high, with a one-bay cottage added to the right.
The front of the building has a projecting plinth and a door to the right that features a basket-headed lintel and a chamfered surround. The rest of the front is mostly blind, except for a 20th-century window. The rear of the building includes a two-light fire-window, a four-light window, and a three-light window on the ground floor, with two three-light windows on the first floor. All windows are double-chamfered and have cavetto-moulded mullions, with flat-faced and double-chamfered mullion windows on the gable, one of which has been converted into a door. A ridge chimney stack is present.
The cottage features double-chamfered mullion windows at the front and rear, with the front partially obscured by a later lean-to and the rear having a mullion removed. Inside, the beam pattern suggests the existence of a former inglenook fireplace, and there is a tie-beam roof truss of massive proportions.
Local climate
Windy Nook sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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