Warth Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.
Warth Cottages
- WRENN ID
- proud-keep-azure
- 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
- Warth Cottages, 1, Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth, OL3 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 003 078
- Coordinates
- 53.56764, -1.9969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Warth Cottages is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of Huddersfield Road in Diggle, Saddleworth. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The house has a double-depth design with two bays and three storeys, and it is characterized by raised quoins. The central door has a square-cut surround, with a four-light window to the left. Each bay has five-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows on every floor. The building also includes kneelers and gable chimney stacks, four-light windows at the rear, two-light windows in the gables, and a blocked taking-in door.
Local climate
Warth Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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