Ash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Ash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-spire-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ash Cottage, Boarshurst Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 7EH
- OS grid reference
- SE 000 043
- Coordinates
- 53.53612, -2.00082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from squared rubble of varying thickness and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a layout of 2 by 1 bays and stands two storeys high, with stone quoins at the corners. There are two doors; one has a shaped chamfered lintel but is now blocked, while the other has a dressed surround and a chamfered lintel. On the first floor, there is a two-light flat-faced mullion window. The gable end has a stack with water-tabling and an oversailing course. At the rear, there are three and five-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows, along with an eight-light window on the first floor that features a king mullion.
Local climate
Ash Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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