Higher Castleshaw Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. A C18 Cottages.
Higher Castleshaw Cottages
- WRENN ID
- weathered-attic-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Higher Castleshaw Cottages, 2 and 4 Higher Castleshaw Cottages, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 001 094
- Coordinates
- 53.58196, -1.99884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Castleshaw Cottages are two mid-18th century cottages located in Saddleworth. They are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and feature a graduated stone slate roof. Each cottage consists of one room on each of two floors. The right-hand cottage is the older of the two and includes quoins, a later door inserted to the right, a three-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullion window on the ground floor, and a later window opening on the first floor. The left-hand cottage also has quoins, a door to the right with a square-cut surround, and a three-light window on each floor similar to the right cottage. There is a small lean-to addition on the right gable of the left cottage. Both cottages have a large door opening at the rear first floor level; one is from the 20th century and the other dates back to the 18th century with a chamfered surround.
Local climate
Higher Castleshaw Cottages 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
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