Fern Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fern Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-hearth-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Hill Cottage, Fern Hill Lane, OL12 6BW
- OS grid reference
- SD 872 153
- Coordinates
- 53.63454, -2.1945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Hill Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the north-west side of Fern Hill Lane, Rochdale. It was originally listed as No. 9 under Fern Hill. The cottage is constructed of coursed rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. It has a 2-unit plan, arranged over two storeys, and features a large central entrance porch. The exterior includes a stone plinth and quoins. The windows originally had flush chamfered mullions, although most have since been removed. The ground floor formerly contained a 2-light window to the left and a 5-light window to the right, while the first floor had a 4-light and a 3-light window. The central porch has an off-centre door with a heavily chamfered stone surround, a gable, a central owl-hole, and kneelers. The rear and side walls have been entirely rebuilt and now contain 20th-century casement windows.
Local climate
Fern Hill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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