Lower Brownhill House is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Lower Brownhill House

WRENN ID
white-spandrel-alder
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
Address
Lower Brownhill House, 2a, Brownhill Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 6BZ
OS grid reference
SD 996 063
Coordinates
53.55356, -2.00621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Brownhill House is a late 18th-century house located on Brownhill Lane in Saddleworth. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The house has three storeys and is designed with a single and double-depth layout, consisting of two bays.

The ground floor includes a bay window, a conservatory, and a small 20th-century extension. The first bay has paired 19th-century sash windows on the upper floors, which replaced earlier mullioned windows. The second bay features 6-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows on the upper floors. To the left gable, there is a 19th-century porch with a stair window above it. The right side has 2-light gable windows and a small wing.

At the rear, the house retains original leaded panes in its 6 and 3-light mullion windows. Many alterations to the original structure were made by John Rooth, a canal agent, around 1810.

Local climate

Lower Brownhill House 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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