Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1975. Terrace of cottages.
Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silent-baluster-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1975
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- Oak Cottages, 15, 17, 18 and 20, Altrincham Road, Styal, SK9 4JQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 834 835
- Coordinates
- 53.34849, -2.24974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottages is a terrace of four former mill workers' cottages located on Altrincham Road in Styal, built around 1820 for Samuel Greg. Originally, there were seven cottages, but they have since been combined into four. The cottages are constructed from red brick in English garden wall bond and feature a Welsh slate roof with seven brick chimneys.
The building is two stories high, with a rectangular block that has a 14-bay west front. The windows are restored iron small-pane casements arranged in pairs, set under cambered brick heads. The cottages have board doors that are accessed by flights of three stone steps, which are adorned with wrought iron balusters. Three of the doors are covered by hoods, two of which are gabled and one is a lean-to, supported by wooden brackets. The basement is lit by pairs of small-pane windows.
This terrace represents the second phase of the development of the industrial village.
Local climate
Oak Cottages 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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