Orrell House and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1988. Farmhouse.
Orrell House and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-banister-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Makerfield MP: Andy Burnham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orrell House and Cottage, Gathurst Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 534 063
- Coordinates
- 53.55134, -2.70344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orrell House and Cottage is a farmhouse located on Orrell Gathurst Road, with a date stone in the garden that reads "JOHN AND/CICELY JACKSON/1737". The building features roughcast walls and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys tall with an irregular plan, comprising three bays. The first two bays have gabled roofs, while the third bay, which is a later extension, is taller.
The ground floor of the first two bays has a window with a bracketed sill, a rusticated wedge lintel, and a cornice above the key, along with a sash window. The third bay has a window with a wedge lintel and a single-bar sash. On the first floor, the first two bays have windows with double-chamfered reveals, dripstones, and single-bar sashes, while the third bay features a casement window. The entrance to the second bay has a wide-boarded studded door topped by a 20th-century gabled porch.
The left side of the building shows the first two bays projecting under gables with varied casements, and the first floor has a four-light double-chamfered-mullioned window in the third bay. The right side features three gabled bays, one of which is made of brick and has a blocked window with a label mould.
Inside, the farmhouse includes ovolo-moulded beams with ovolo stops and panelled doors with H-L hinges. The staircase has column balusters on a close string, a moulded handrail, and square newels.
Local climate
Orrell House and 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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