Moorfield House and Right Hand Bay Only Moorfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. House.
Moorfield House and Right Hand Bay Only Moorfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-hinge-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moorfield House and Right Hand Bay Only Moorfield Cottage, Rochdale Road, Shaw and Crompton
- OS grid reference
- SD 928 094
- Coordinates
- 53.58164, -2.10894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorfield House, along with the right-hand bay of Moorfield Cottage, is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a brick gable end and has a slate roof. The building features a double-depth central-staircase plan, comprising three bays and two storeys. The central entrance has a dressed stone surround. The ground floor includes four and five-light windows, while the first floor has a mix of four, two, and five-light windows. All windows are designed with recessed flat-faced stone mullions. There is a sill band on the first floor and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. The house has gable chimney stacks. At the rear, there are four three-light mullioned windows, a door, and an arched stair window.
Local climate
Moorfield House and Right Hand Bay Only Moorfield Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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