Lodge to Bluecoat School is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Lodge to Bluecoat School
- WRENN ID
- weathered-hearth-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge to Bluecoat School, Egerton Street, OL1 3SP
- OS grid reference
- SD 929 053
- Coordinates
- 53.54471, -2.10843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodge to Henshaw's Bluecoat School, built around 1830, is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with a Welsh slate roof. It is a single-storey building featuring a central door, which is flanked by a two-light casement window on each side. The windows have plain architraves, and there is a hood mould above the doorway. The building also has a parapet and coped gables, along with a single stack at one end wall.
Local climate
Lodge to Bluecoat School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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