Higher Fold Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Cottage.
Higher Fold Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-entrance-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Higher Fold Cottage, Higher Fold Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 800 173
- Coordinates
- 53.65246, -2.30317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Fold Cottage is a 18th-century building dated 'K/IA/1732', which is displayed in a decorated panel over the porch. The cottage is constructed from rubble stone, arranged in courses that diminish towards the top. It features three stone-mullioned windows, with the right-hand window set in an advanced gable that has flush quoins. The left-hand window is missing its mullions, and the middle lower window has only two remaining. There are drip moulds above the ground floor windows and the upper gable window. The doorway, which is located to the right of the left-hand window, has a Tudor-style head and is backed by a chimney. The gable porch is made of thin slabs that are keyed together, and the roof is covered with stone slabs. There are further chimneys at each end of the building.
Local climate
Higher Fold Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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