Prestbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House, cottage.
Prestbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-thatch-acorn
- 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, cottage
- Address
- Prestbury Cottage, 8 and 10, Diglee, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 009 080
- Coordinates
- 53.56896, -1.98743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prestbury Cottage is a house and cottage built in the late 18th century and 19th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The house is a double-depth, two-bay structure with three storeys, while the adjoining cottage to the right is two storeys and two bays.
The house has five and three-light windows on the ground floor, a seven-light window on the first floor (one of which is blocked), and a seven-light window on the second floor. All windows have recessed flat-faced stone mullions. There is a gable chimney stack, and the door, which has a square-cut surround, is located in the gable. The gable and rear of the house have one, two, and three-light windows, with the rear also featuring a first-floor taking-in door. The cottage includes a 20th-century porch and a lean-to addition on the right.
Local climate
Prestbury 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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