Hillside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.

Hillside Cottage

WRENN ID
forgotten-copper-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
House
Address
Hillside Cottage, Nicker Brow, Saddleworth
OS grid reference
SD 993 065
Coordinates
53.55519, -2.01098
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hillside Cottage is a house dated 1765, as indicated by the datestone marked "WH 1765" (Winterbottom). It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a two-bay, two-storey single-depth plan. The central entrance, which has a dressed surround, is now blocked, and a later door has been inserted to the right. There are a total of three two-light windows and a blocked taking-in door. The datestone on the first floor is decaying and has unreadable initials along with a small moulded hood. At the rear, there are four and five-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion windows on each floor.

Local climate

Hillside Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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