Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-corner-pearl
- 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
- Hill Cottage, 6 and 7, Lane Head, Saddleworth, OL3 7EZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 990 033
- Coordinates
- 53.52653, -2.01586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, situated in Greenfield. The house is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and has a slate roof. It is a single-depth building with three bays spread over two storeys. The first bay projects and represents the earlier part of the building. Quoins are present. A door is located in the second bay, with a square-cut surround. The front has five, two, and six-light ground floor windows and three three-light first floor windows; all feature recessed flat-faced stone mullions. There are three, four, and five-light windows to the rear. An altered barn adjoins the house to the left.
Local climate
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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