Mount Farm Cottage Nunnery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1988. House.
Mount Farm Cottage Nunnery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-gallery-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Makerfield MP: Andy Burnham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mount Farm Cottage Nunnery Cottage, 170, Orrell Road, WN5 8HQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 536 050
- Coordinates
- 53.5396, -2.70011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Farm Cottage and Nunnery Cottage are two houses located on Orrell Road, dating from the early 19th century, with parts from the 17th century and 20th-century extensions. A datestone on the rear garden wall reads "PEP/1652". The buildings are constructed of dressed stone with slate roofs and possibly a felted roof over stone slate.
The eastern part, known as Nunnery Cottage, is early 19th century, featuring two storeys and three bays. It has an ashlar base and cornice, with windows that have wedge lintels and three-light small-paned casements, where the upper panes display round-headed Y-tracery glazing. Above the entrance, there is a two-light window. The round-headed entrance includes an archivolt with a key and a fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, leading to a 20th-century door. Gable-end brick stacks are present.
The western part, Mount Farm Cottage, has a south facade that features a seven-light double-chamfered-mullioned window with a drip stone on the ground floor, and a similar five-light window and casement on the first floor, along with a plain entrance. A brick ridge stack with diaper detailing is also present. The left return has been rebuilt, and there is a rear extension. Inside, the cottage retains chamfered beams and a fireplace bressumer.
Local climate
Mount Farm Cottage Nunnery Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% 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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