Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House and cottages.

Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages

WRENN ID
frozen-shingle-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
House and cottages
Address
Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages, Lee Side, Saddleworth
OS grid reference
SE 008 074
Coordinates
53.56389, -1.98918
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages is a house and two cottages built in the early to mid-18th century. The structure is made of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It is a double-depth house with three storeys and three bays, along with a three-bay, three-storey wing at the rear left that dates from the late 18th century. There is a blocked door between the first and second bays, framed with a dressed surround. The ground floor has windows with four, four, and six lights, while the first floor has three four-light windows and the second floor has three, three, and four-light windows. All windows have recessed cavetto-moulded stone mullions. The top storey appears to have been added, likely in the late 18th century, and it reuses earlier windows. There are three rendered ridge chimney stacks and a square-cut door surround on the right gable. The rear wing, which was built in two phases, generally features a three-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion window in each bay on each floor, with some windows retaining their original leaded panes.

Local climate

Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages 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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