Medlock Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1966. A C17 House.
Medlock Hall
- WRENN ID
- floating-turret-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Medlock Hall, M35 9WJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 918 004
- Coordinates
- 53.5008, -2.12465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Medlock Hall is a house dating from the 17th century, but it incorporates an earlier cruck truss that is probably from the 16th century. The building features a timber frame set on a stone plinth, with a squared rubble crosswing and a slate roof. It originally had a three-unit cross-passage plan but now consists of two units (three bays) due to the demolition of a bay on the left side in the 1890s. The left wing has square-panel timber framing and a porch on the right, along with a total of five 20th-century casement windows. The gabled stone crosswing on the right has a three-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with a hoodmould on each floor and a ridge chimney stack. The right return features similar two, three, and four-light windows, with the two-light window serving as a fire window. The rear of the building is mostly hidden by 20th-century extensions and a dormer window.
Inside, there is a cruck truss to the left of the cross-passage, which has two collars visible at the first-floor level. Behind this truss is an inglenook fireplace with a heck post and a segmental arched bressummer beam. The stone wing also contains an inglenook fireplace, where the heck post has a carved bracket at the point it meets the bressummer beam. The interior features chamfered floor beams with run-out stops, timber-framed internal walls with wattle and daub panels, and a tie-beam roof truss in the stone wing.
Local climate
Medlock Hall 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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