Lowhouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Lowhouse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-vault-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lowhouse Cottage, Kiln Lane, OL16 3HN
- OS grid reference
- SD 933 131
- Coordinates
- 53.61519, -2.10254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowhouse Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of squared rubble and has a 20th-century tile roof. The building features a two-unit, two-storey plan with quoins and a projecting plinth. A continuous drip mould runs along the first floor, rising above a nearly central door that has a segmental-arched head and a dressed chamfered surround. On each floor, there are two three-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows. The cottage has kneelers and a 20th-century chimney stack.
On the left side, there is a three-light chamfered mullion window on the ground floor, which was originally located on the first floor, featuring arched lights. Additionally, there is a dressed circular opening in the gable. The right gable has been rebuilt. At the rear, there is a three-light flat-faced mullion window, a 20th-century patio window, and a twelve-light flat-faced mullion window on the first floor, which was inserted in the 18th century. Inside, there are chamfered floor beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Lowhouse Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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