Diggle Edge Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse.
Diggle Edge Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottages
- WRENN ID
- carved-slate-fern
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SE 014 085
- Coordinates
- 53.57382, -1.98013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Diggle Edge Farmhouse, along with the adjoining barn and cottages, dates from the 1770s for the farmhouse and around 1800 for the cottages. The buildings are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a graduated stone slate roof. The farmhouse is a single-depth, two-storey structure with a barn on the right, a lean-to against the left gable, and cottages at the extreme right.
The farmhouse has a square-cut door surround, flanked by five and three-light windows, with nine and three-light windows on the first floor. All windows have recessed flat-faced stone mullions. The barn door on the right has a corbelled lintel, and there is a shippon door nearby. The building features a cornice and two ridge chimney stacks, along with a blocked winnowing door at the rear.
The cottages are partially obscured on the ground floor by a timber lean-to and have three and five-light windows on the first floor, as well as a nine-light workshop window on the second floor. The cottages also include kneelers, two-light gable windows, and a blocked taking-in door at the rear on the first floor.
Local climate
Diggle Edge Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottages 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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