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

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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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