Brow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Brow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ruined-tower-cream
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
Address
Brow Farmhouse, Standedge Road, Saddleworth, OL3 5NB
OS grid reference
SE 004 090
Coordinates
53.57804, -1.99393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brow Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a long double-depth range with two storeys and a later wing added to the rear left. The left section, now consisting of four bays, includes 20th-century window openings on both floors. The fifth bay has quoins and a door to the right that has been inserted into a former window opening. It also features a five-light recessed chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion window on the ground floor and an eight-light recessed flat-faced mullion window on the first floor. The farmhouse has kneelers and three ridge chimney stacks. There is a blocked door on the right gable with a square-cut surround, along with two and four-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullion windows (the four-light window has had its mullion removed) and blocked attic lights. The rear of the building has two and three-light windows similar to those on the front.

Local climate

Brow Farmhouse 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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