Wellfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Wellfield House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-stronghold-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wellfield House, Harshead Street, OL4 5DL
- OS grid reference
- SD 954 044
- Coordinates
- 53.53665, -2.06965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wellfield House is a house built between 1830 and 1840, constructed from ashlar stone with a slate roof. It features a central-staircase plan with five bays and two storeys. The building has a projecting plinth, an eaves cornice with a blocking course, and a hipped roof. The central door, which is from the 20th century, is flanked by pilasters and has a segmental fanlight and a hood supported by consoles. An elaborate decorative cast-iron trellis porch with a swept lead roof is designed in the Regency style. The windows are symmetrically arranged, with four on the ground floor and five on the first floor, all replaced with 20th-century casements. There are chimney stacks located to the left and at the rear of the house. An addition was made to the rear left in the later 19th century, featuring a guilloche frieze. Inside, the house boasts rich cornices, a pedimented doorcase, and an original mantel in the principal room. The dogleg stair has shaped brackets on a cut string and a scroll stop on the handrail.
Local climate
Wellfield House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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