2, 3 and 4, The Shaws is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Houses. 2 related planning applications.

2, 3 and 4, The Shaws

WRENN ID
sharp-window-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
Houses
Address
2, 3 and 4, The Shaws, Saddleworth, OL3 6JX
OS grid reference
SE 001 054
Coordinates
53.54562, -1.99964
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These are two houses, now divided into three, dating from the late 18th century. They are built of hammer-dressed, watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. The buildings consist of a single and double-depth range, with a total of three bays over three storeys. The first bay (number 4) was built earlier than the others and is double-depth, featuring quoins and a door to the right with a dressed surround. It has a five-light ground floor window, a seven-light first floor window, and a seven-light window to the second floor which was added after the construction of bays 2 and 3. All windows have recessed, flat-faced stone mullions. Bay 3 has a square-cut door surround, and a door was inserted to bay 2 when it was converted into a separate house. Bay 2 features four and five-light windows, bay 3 has two three-light, flat-faced windows, and the top floor has a 14-light workshop window, all appearing to be later than the lower floors. There are two ridge chimney stacks. The rear elevation includes a three-light, double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion window from an earlier date, along with various four, six, and 14-light windows. Two taking-in doors have been blocked up.

Local climate

2, 3 and 4, The Shaws 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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