Mount Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
Mount Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-pediment-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mount Cottage, Shawclough Road, OL12 7HR
- OS grid reference
- SD 882 155
- Coordinates
- 53.63629, -2.17934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Cottage is a house built in the late 18th century and mid 19th century. It is constructed of watershot stone and ashlar, topped with a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features three bays, following a double-depth central-staircase plan. To the right, there is a three-bay addition that includes a carriage entry and a bay window.
The central door is framed by moulded architraves, and there are four 16-pane sash windows along with one 20th-century replacement, each with stone heads, sills, and jambs. The house has an eaves frieze and cornice, with gable stacks. The later addition on the right has a first bay that projects significantly, featuring a rusticated canted bay window with a parapet and a tripartite window above. The other two bays of the addition include an arched carriage entry on the ground floor and two sash windows on the first floor, with detailing that matches the original house.
At the rear, there is an arched stair window and a total of seven original sash windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Mount 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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