Higher Tunstead is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Higher Tunstead
- WRENN ID
- tall-passage-birch
- 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
- Higher Tunstead, 1, Tunstead Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 7NU
- OS grid reference
- SE 004 045
- Coordinates
- 53.53796, -1.99457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Tunstead is an early 18th-century house located in Saddleworth. The house is constructed of roughly dressed stone with a roof of graduated stone slates. It has a two-bay, two-storey layout, with an entrance in each gable. The corners are emphasised by quoins. The ground floor has windows of 2, 4, and 2 lights, while the first floor has two 3-light windows. All windows have double-chamfered, cavetto-moulded stone mullions, except for one which is flat-faced. A gable stack features water-tabling and an oversailing course. A blocked door is present, along with a blocked attic light and a 2-light, flat-faced stone mullion window to the left gable. The right gable is obscured by a 20th-century porch. A blocked window is visible at the rear of the building.
Local climate
Higher Tunstead sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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