Hilltop House and Adjoining Cottages at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House, cottages. 3 related planning applications.

Hilltop House and Adjoining Cottages at Rear

WRENN ID
dusted-hearth-khaki
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, cottages
Address
Hilltop House and Adjoining Cottages at Rear, OL3 5RJ
OS grid reference
SD 978 074
Coordinates
53.56377, -2.03378
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Hilltop House and adjoining cottages date from the mid-18th century, with 19th-century additions. The house is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. It is a double-depth house with two bays and two storeys plus an attic. Quoins and an eaves cornice are present. A 20th-century porch now obscures the original dressed door surround. The windows are three-light, with recessed cavetto-moulded mullions. Coped gable and gable chimney stacks are visible. The 18th-century house’s attic level is visible on the gable-ends, which feature several one-light, two-light, and three-light mullion windows to the upper floor levels. One of these windows appears to be of 17th-century date, while some are blocked. A blocked-up taking-in door is also present. One of the cottages has a lintel dated 1868.

Local climate

Hilltop House and Adjoining Cottages at Rear 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
  • 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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