Whitfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. House.
Whitfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-glass-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 942 176
- Coordinates
- 53.6557, -2.08893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitfield Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone and has a slate roof. The building features two bays and stands two storeys high, with quoins at the corners. The front has paired doors, one of which is now blocked, and a blocked 2-light window to the left, alongside a 1-light window to the right and some inserted first-floor windows. There is a lean-to addition on the right gable. The principal elevation is at the rear, which includes four 4-light flat-faced mullion windows and a small inserted window. A gable chimney stack is also present.
Local climate
Whitfield Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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