Ballgrove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Ballgrove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-niche-wagtail
- 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
- Ballgrove Cottage, 3, Rush Hill Road, Saddleworth, OL3 6JG
- OS grid reference
- SD 999 051
- Coordinates
- 53.54344, -2.00153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ballgrove Cottage is a house located on Rush Hill Road in Saddleworth, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a 20th-century roof covering. The building has a double-depth plan with two bays and three storeys. A 20th-century lean-to porch obscures a door with a square-cut surround.
The first bay, which dates from the mid-18th century, has quoins and includes a four-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window on the first floor, both with double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullions. The second bay, added later, features a four-light recessed flat-faced window on the ground floor and a five-light flat-faced window on the first floor. A workshop was added to the second floor at a later date, which has a twelve-light window. The cottage has a gable chimney stack and includes two-light gable windows, as well as three, four, and five-light windows at the rear. The rear also has a blocked taking-in door and a small 20th-century extension.
Local climate
Ballgrove 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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