Lightowlers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1972. House.
Lightowlers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-portal-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lightowlers Cottage, Lightowlers Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 948 172
- Coordinates
- 53.65184, -2.07956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lightowlers Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with some fabric possibly from the 17th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone, with some areas featuring watershot stone, and has a graduated stone slate roof. The building has three bays and two storeys, with quoins at the corners. There is a gabled porch located between the first and second bays, and a blocked door that has been converted into a window in the third bay. The ground floor features two 4-light chamfered mullion windows, while the first floor has windows with 4, 3, and 4 lights, which are double-chamfered with two mullions removed. The cottage has gable chimney stacks and includes a later lean-to addition on the right gable and a wing on the left gable. The rear of the building has various window and door openings, including one double-chamfered mullion window.
Local climate
Lightowlers 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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