Higher House and Higher House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Higher House and Higher House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-ember-meadow
- 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, cottage
- Address
- Higher House and Higher House Cottage, Thurston Clough Road, Saddleworth, OL3 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SD 977 068
- Coordinates
- 53.55854, -2.03566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher House and Higher House Cottage is a late 18th-century house and cottage located on the north-west side of Clough Road, Saddleworth. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a slate roof. The original house is a 2-bay single-depth structure, with a double-depth cottage added to the right, and a later wing extending far to the right. Bay 1 was built slightly later than Bay 2. The front features 4-light and 8-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows on the ground floor, and 5-light and 7-light windows on the first floor. A door with overlight and square-cut surround is positioned between the two bays. A ridge chimney stack is present. Other windows include 2-, 3- and 4-light windows to the gable and rear elevations, along with a blocked taking-in door. The cottage (Bay 3) projects forward and has 4-light windows on each floor, 2-light gable windows, blocked owl holes in the gable, and a small garage wing to the right.
Local climate
Higher House and Higher House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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