Cockleshell 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.
Cockleshell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-basalt-dawn
- 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
- Cockleshell Cottage, 24, Platt Lane, Saddleworth, OL3 5AD
- OS grid reference
- SD 989 067
- Coordinates
- 53.55768, -2.01783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cockleshell Cottage is a house dated 1747, as indicated by the datestone above the door. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone, which is now painted, and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a 2-unit plan with two storeys and includes a slightly later wing set back to the right. It has quoins and a variety of window styles, including three, four, and two-light ground floor windows, as well as two four-light first floor windows. Most of the double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullions have been removed, and a later window has been inserted between two of the ground floor windows. There is a lean-to garage on the left gable with more altered windows above. The entrance wing to the right features a dressed door surround and has three and four-light windows, with the majority of the mullions missing. The house is topped with ridge and gable chimney stacks.
Local climate
Cockleshell 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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- 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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