White Spring Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

White Spring Head Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dim-bronze-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White Spring Head Farmhouse, Shaw Gate (Off Knowl Top Lane), Saddleworth, Oldham
OS grid reference
SE 007 055
Coordinates
53.54672, -1.9906
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Spring Head Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone, with watershot stone only in bay 2, and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a two-bay, single-depth plan and stands two storeys high, with a small barn to the left and a 20th-century garage to the right. The central door is obscured by a 20th-century porch. There are four and three-light windows on the ground floor and two five-light windows on the first floor, all with recessed flat-faced stone mullions. Bay 1 slightly predates bay 2. Additionally, there are two-light windows in the gable and gable chimney stacks.

Local climate

White Spring Head 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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