New Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Houses.

New Houses

WRENN ID
woven-alcove-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
Houses
Address
New Houses, 9 and 10, Off Platting Road, Saddleworth
OS grid reference
SD 972 057
Coordinates
53.54831, -2.04291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Houses are two houses built in the mid-18th century. They are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a slate and 20th-century tile roof. The buildings form an L-shaped range with two storeys and a two-storey wing to the west. The eaves have a dentilled cornice, and the east range of the L has raised tooled quoins. A lean-to porch obscures a central door that has a dressed surround and a keystone lintel. There is an enlarged window to the right on the ground floor, while the first floor features two Venetian windows with tooled lintels. To the right, there is a lean-to 20th-century garage and a blocked taking-in door at the rear. A gable chimney stack is present. The south range consists of two bays and includes a door with an architrave surround and cornice, two 4-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullion windows, and a 2-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullion window, along with a Venetian window in the gable. The west range has a projecting plinth, quoins, and features a 3-light and a 6-light window on each floor, similar to those in the south range.

Local climate

New Houses 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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