Freshwater Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Cottage.
Freshwater Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-gallery-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Freshwater Cottage, Lower Abbots
- OS grid reference
- SD 944 144
- Coordinates
- 53.62648, -2.08604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Freshwater Cottage is a building that dates back to the 1790s and was originally three cottages, now combined into one house. It is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The front has three doors with square-cut surrounds, although the central door is blocked. The left door has a 20th-century porch. On the ground floor, there are four, three, and four-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. The first floor has five, four, and six-light windows, two of which are blocked, and there is a continuous sill band beneath them. The building has ridge chimney stacks, and the rear features similar but smaller windows, along with a blocked taking-in door.
Local climate
Freshwater 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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