The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A Georgian House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-marble-magpie
- 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
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Saddleworth Fold
- OS grid reference
- SE 003 060
- Coordinates
- 53.55126, -1.99656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building located in Saddleworth, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building consists of a 4-bay single-depth range with various constructions, including a former barn wing at the rear of bay 1.
The original house, comprising bays 2 and 3, has a central door that is obscured by a 20th-century porch, flanked by 4 and 6-light mullion windows. There is a 14-light workshop window on the first floor and heightened eaves. Bay 4 is a later addition and includes garage doors on the ground floor. Bay 1, also added later, features a 4-light window on each floor. The building has a total of four ridge chimney stacks, a dressed door surround, and 2-light windows on the gable.
The former barn wing at the rear was converted into a house in the early 19th century. It includes a blocked cart entry, 3 and 5-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows, and a former shippon door with a chamfered surround. There is also a 20th-century garage at the rear.
Local climate
The Old 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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