The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-foundation-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 58, Crescent Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 140 182
- Coordinates
- 53.66018, -1.78941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage, located at 58 Crescent Road in Fartown, is a building that likely dates back to 1789. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a pitched stone slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and includes stone brackets supporting the gutter. On the first floor, there are two three-light stone mullioned windows, while the ground floor has a four-light stone mullioned window. At the rear, there is an outshut with a pitched stone slate roof.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 1998
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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