Thurstons is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.
Thurstons
- WRENN ID
- seventh-arch-reed
- 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, 8, Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 008 089
- Coordinates
- 53.57682, -1.98848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thurstons is a house located on Huddersfield Road in Diggle, built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone, which is now painted, and features a graduated stone slate roof. The house has a single-depth plan with two bays and two storeys, along with lean-tos against each gable. The ground floor has six and three-light windows, while the first floor has seven and three-light windows, all with recessed flat-faced stone mullions. There are also one, two, and three-light windows in the gables and at the rear. The entrance door is located in the left lean-to, and there is a ridge chimney stack.
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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