Diamond Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1966. Farmhouse.

Diamond Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-barrel-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1966
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Diamond Hall Farmhouse, 170, Medlock Road
OS grid reference
SD 906 004
Coordinates
53.50076, -2.14176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Diamond Hall Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse constructed of English garden wall bond brick with a slate roof. It features a two-unit baffle-entry plan, with small later additions to the rear and left. The central gabled porch has an original boarded door with strap hinges. To the left of the porch, there is an oak-mullioned casement window beneath a diagonally set brick head, an elliptical brick arch, and a hoodmould. There are two later windows to the right, and above the porch, there is a small arched light with a hoodmould that is now blocked. The first floor displays cross and diamond patterns in raised brick, along with two windows: one is a horizontally sliding sash, and the other is a later alteration. The farmhouse has a central chimney stack, with more decorative brickwork on the left gable. The right gable end was rebuilt in the 20th century. At the rear, there are two elliptical-headed windows on either side of a small wing. Inside, the farmhouse retains chamfered floor beams with ogee stops and an inglenook fireplace, where the ovolo-moulded bressumer beam rests on carved corbels, which is an unusual feature.

Local climate

Diamond Hall Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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