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

Pinfold Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crumbling-threshold-furze
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
Pinfold Farmhouse, Knowl Top Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 6LQ
OS grid reference
SE 005 050
Coordinates
53.54222, -1.99382
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pinfold Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates partly from the early 17th century, with later extensions and rebuilding from the early and late 18th century. It is constructed of dressed stone and hammer-dressed watershot stone, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a single-depth plan, three storeys high, and consists of three bays, with lean-to extensions on the right gable and the front right and left sides.

The third bay contains the earliest work, featuring a 4-light double-chamfered stone mullion window, although two of the mullions are missing, and it has a hoodmould with upturned ends. The second bay, which is a later addition, retains a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window next to an inserted 18th-century door. The first bay, likely added in the late 18th century, was probably when the loom workshop was incorporated into the upper floors of the second and third bays.

Other openings in the farmhouse include 6, 10, and 13-light recessed flat-faced mullion windows, as well as two blocked taking-in doors. The building features two ridge chimney stacks, coped gables, and kneelers. The rear of the farmhouse also displays evidence of various construction periods, with 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10-light windows similar to those at the front.

Local climate

Pinfold Farmhouse 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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