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

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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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