Higher Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.
Higher Barn
- WRENN ID
- gilded-sill-martin
- 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
- Higher Barn, Dark Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 980 087
- Coordinates
- 53.57578, -2.03078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Barn is a house and adjoining barn, originally dated to 1728, as indicated by the inscription "IB NB 1728" on the door lintel, although it has undergone later additions and alterations. The structure is built from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It consists of two bays and two storeys, with a barn wing extending to the rear left and a small 18th-century addition to the right gable. The building has quoins and a projecting plinth.
In the first bay, there are three and four-light windows that have double-chamfered mullions, which are 20th-century replacements. The second bay features a five-light window (extended to seven) and a four-light window, both with double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullions. The building has gable chimney stacks and includes two and three-light gable windows, as well as a gable entrance with a dated lintel that is obscured by a later addition. The rear of the building has similar two and three-light windows, along with a 20th-century window. The barn itself has a segmental-headed barn door and a chamfered segmental-headed shippon door.
Local climate
Higher 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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