Mount Sorrell Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse, barn, cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Mount Sorrell Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-span-evening
- 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, cottage
- Address
- Mount Sorrell Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottage, OL3 5RU
- OS grid reference
- SD 984 061
- Coordinates
- 53.55232, -2.02479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Sorrell Farmhouse, along with an adjoining barn and cottage, dates from the late 18th century, with the barn and cottage added in the 19th century. The buildings are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a graduated stone slate and slate roof. The farmhouse is a three-bay, two-storey structure with a later wing extending to the front right. The barn and cottage are located to the right of the farmhouse.
The farmhouse has a central door with a square-cut surround, a two-light window above, and a blocked taking-in door. The gabled wing projects to the right and features gable chimney stacks. There are two and three-light windows in the gables. The rear of the farmhouse includes a variety of windows: two, three, three, and two-light windows on the ground floor, and five, three, and two-light windows on the first floor. All windows have recessed flat-faced mullions, many of which have been rendered over.
The barn features an elliptical-headed cart entry with an opposed winnowing door, a shippon door to the right, and a small brick extension. The cottage consists of one bay and has a 20th-century casement window on each floor, both with stone lintels and sills, as well as a door with a square-cut door surround.
Local climate
Mount Sorrell Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn and Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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