Merestone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Merestone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-newel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Merestone Cottage, 4, Doctor Lane, Saddleworth, OL4 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SD 972 059
- Coordinates
- 53.54974, -2.04281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merestone Cottage is a late 18th-century house, now comprising two cottages. It is located on the west side of Doctor Lane in Saddleworth. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. The plan is a double-depth arrangement with two bays, and it has two storeys with gable entrances. The front has two 4-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows on each floor. Gable chimney stacks are present. Each gable features a timber porch and a 3-light mullion window on the first floor; one of these windows is blocked, and another has had its mullions removed. The original door, situated on the right gable, has a square-cut surround.
Local climate
Merestone Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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