Old Post Office Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. House.

Old Post Office Farm

WRENN ID
silent-bracket-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1966
Type
House
Address
Old Post Office Farm, 2, Back Lane
OS grid reference
SJ 993 955
Coordinates
53.457, -2.01192
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Old Post Office Farm is a 17th-century house located on Back Lane in Longdendale. It features squared coursed rubble construction, a graduated stone slate roof, and a brick chimney stack. The building has a 2-bay baffle-entry plan, is two storeys high, and includes a two-storey porch. It has one room in depth and a slightly later wing added to the rear. The facade is symmetrical and showcases a 5-light window with three mullions removed, along with three 3-light windows, one of which also has a mullion removed. All windows have double-chamfered stone mullions.

The central porch has an off-centre chamfered door surround, a round-headed light on the first floor, an owl hole, dove holes, and a coped gable with kneelers and ball finials. A central ridge chimney stack is present, and the rear of the building has two windows with a mullion removed and a round-headed attic gable light. Inside, there is a wattle and daub timber-framed partition spanning two floors. The door lintel is inscribed with "NWM 1694," indicating the names Nicholas and Martha Wagstaffe. The left-hand bay of the building is part of the former No. 50 Market Street.

Local climate

Old Post Office Farm 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 4, Back Lane Grade II 10 m
  2. Mottram Congregational Church Grade II 97 m
  3. Mottram Court House Grade II 122 m
  4. Manor House Grade II 132 m
  5. Village Stocks Grade II 135 m
  6. Crown Pole Grade II 142 m
  7. Crown Pole House Crowning Glory Hair Dressers Grade II 161 m
  8. 19 and 21, Ashworth Lane Grade II 197 m
  9. The Elms and forecourt wall Grade II 203 m
  10. School House Grade II 203 m