Rye Top is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A C18 House.
Rye Top
- WRENN ID
- over-brass-river
- 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
- House
- Address
- Rye Top, Knowl Top Lane, Saddleworth, Oldham, OL3 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 006 052
- Coordinates
- 53.54345, -1.9914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rye Top is a house built around 1770, with later additions from the 18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two bays and three storeys, with a porch located at the right gable. The first bay has quoins and a dressed doorway to the right, which is now blocked, along with four, five, and five-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. The second bay, added in the late 18th century, includes a six-light window on each floor and a gable porch. The house has gable chimney stacks and a coped gable with kneelers on the right side only. There are also two and three-light windows on the gables and at the rear.
Local climate
Rye Top 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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