Woolleys Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.
Woolleys Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-crypt-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
- Address
- Woolleys Hill Cottage, Intake Lane, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 993 035
- Coordinates
- 53.52822, -2.01142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolleys Hill Cottage is a late 17th-century house located on Intake Lane in Saddleworth. It is constructed from roughly dressed stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The cottage has two bays and is single-depth with two storeys, along with a 20th-century porch on the right gable. Notable architectural details include a projecting plinth, quoins, and a variety of windows: two, five, and two-light windows on the ground floor, and three and three-light windows on the first floor, all with cavetto-moulded double-chamfered mullions. One of the mullions is missing, and one window has been widened with flat-faced stone mullions. The cottage has a central ridge chimney stack with an oversailing course and a gable door with a square-cut surround, which is obscured by the porch. The rear of the building features various smaller windows, including a two-light double-chamfered mullion stair window, although the mullion has been removed. The interior, although much altered, previously included a smoke hood near the door.
Local climate
Woolleys Hill Cottage 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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