Thurstons is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.

Thurstons

WRENN ID
stony-dormer-gilt
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
Thurstons, 7 and 8, Ridge Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 5LR
OS grid reference
SE 008 088
Coordinates
53.57644, -1.98906
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a house, dating from around 1720, with 20th-century additions. It is built of hammer-dressed watershot stone, with a graduated stone slate roof. The house is single-depth and has two storeys and two bays. A flat-roofed garage is attached to the left, and a lean-to porch extends from the right. Quoins are present. The ground floor has four-light and six-light windows, and the first floor has two three-light windows, all with recessed cavetto-moulded stone mullions. 20th-century window openings are visible at the rear.

Local climate

Thurstons 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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