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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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