Delph Slack Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Delph Slack Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- slow-sentry-flax
- 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, barn
- Address
- Delph Slack Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn, OL3 5TZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 978 095
- Coordinates
- 53.58225, -2.03404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Delph Slack Farmhouse and the adjoining barn is a Grade II listed building that dates back to 1745, as indicated by the inscription "1745 RWAW" (Robert and Ann Whitehead) 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.
The farmhouse is a single-depth range that totals five bays and stands two storeys high, with the barn located to the left and a later range added to the rear. In the first bay, there is a door to the left (now a window) with a dressed surround, accompanied by a 4-light recessed flat-faced ground floor mullion window and a 7-light window on the first floor. The second, third, and fourth bays represent the earlier part of the building, with bay 2 featuring altered window openings fitted with 20th-century casements. Bays 3 and 4 have 4-light and 2-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion ground floor windows, a similar 3-light window on the first floor, and later 3-light and 2-light windows. Bay 5 includes a 2-light and a 3-light window.
The former gable entrance, which has the dated lintel, is obscured by an 18th-century addition. The building also has ridge chimney stacks and features 3, 4, and 7-light recessed flat-faced mullion windows at the rear. The barn includes a cart entry and a shippon door.
Local climate
Delph Slack Farmhouse and Adjoining 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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