Lower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.
Lower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-wicket-mint
- 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
- Lower Cottage, Nicker Brow, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 993 065
- Coordinates
- 53.55523, -2.0113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Cottage is a house built from hammer-dressed stone with a graduated stone slate roof. It dates from the late 17th century, with an addition marked "IWAW 1742" on the lintel, attributed to Winterbottom. The house has a single-depth plan consisting of three bays and two storeys. The first bay, from 1742, features a square-cut door surround on the right, a window on the left with a similar surround, and a three-light flat-faced stone mullion window on the first floor. Bays two and three have a seven-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded window on the ground floor, with a 19th-century window inserted to the right. The first floor includes a nine-light double-chamfered window and a later three-light flat-faced mullion window. There are two ridge chimney stacks, and 20th-century windows have been inserted at the rear. The roof structure incorporates parts of a former cruck-framed structure.
Local climate
Lower Cottage 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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