Higher 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. 1 related planning application.
Higher Slack Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- gentle-groin-gorse
- 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
- Higher Slack Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn, OL3 5TU
- OS grid reference
- SD 979 095
- Coordinates
- 53.58222, -2.03218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Slack Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are located on Stoney Lane in Saddleworth. The farmhouse dates back to 1740, as indicated by the inscription "RWAW 1740" (Robert Whitehead) on the door lintel. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building consists of two bays and two storeys, with the barn situated to the left.
The first bay is single-depth and includes a door on the right with a chamfered surround, a ground floor window with four lights and a double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion, and a first floor window with six lights that has a recessed flat face. The second bay, which predates 1740, is double-depth and features five and six-light chamfered windows, with the ground floor windows being double-chamfered and cavetto-moulded. The farmhouse has gable chimney stacks and two and three-light windows on the gables and rear. Inside, there is a fire surround with a corbelled mantel and cornice. The front of the barn has been rebuilt.
Local climate
Higher 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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