Gatehead Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Cottage.
Gatehead Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-frieze-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gatehead Cottage, Gatehead Road, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 986 071
- Coordinates
- 53.56132, -2.02111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatehead Cottage is an early 18th-century house, believed to date around 1720. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The ground floor includes windows with 2, 5, and 4 lights, while the first floor has 4, 3, and 4-light windows. All windows have double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullions, except for one 3-light window that has flat-faced mullions and was added in the late 18th century. The cottage has plain stone eaves gutter brackets and gable chimney stacks, one of which has been rebuilt in brick. There are 2-light windows on the gables and a door with a square-cut surround. A blocked taking-in door on the right gable has a chamfered surround. The rear features 2 and 3-light windows similar to those at the front, with one window having a door inserted and another missing a mullion.
Local climate
Gatehead 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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