Ratcher Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Ratcher Cottages

WRENN ID
veiled-vault-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Ratcher Cottages, 1 and 2, Hole Bottom Road, Todmorden, OL14 8DD
OS grid reference
SD 939 253
Coordinates
53.72432, -2.09349
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ratcher Cottages are a pair of cottages built in the early 19th century. They are constructed of watershot masonry with ashlar quoins and feature a stone slate roof. The south front has three storeys and two bays. Each bay includes a doorway with a sill tie and a flat faced mullioned window with five lights on each floor. The right-hand return wall has a blocked taking-in door leading to the second floor. There is a central stack at the ridge. These cottages were formerly associated with textile manufacture, and a mill dam can be found cut into the hillside just above them.

Local climate

Ratcher Cottages 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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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