Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Former estate workers' cottages.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silver-rubble-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Former estate workers' cottages
- Address
- Church Cottages, 1 and 2, Cresswell Village
- OS grid reference
- NZ 290 933
- Coordinates
- 55.23344, -1.54409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages are a pair of former estate workers' cottages built around 1838. They are constructed from squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings and have slate roofs. The cottages are single-storey and consist of four bays. They feature a chamfered plinth and eaves course, and the windows are casement style, with latticed windows in number 2, all set in double-chamfered surrounds.
At the center, there is a shaped gablet with moulded kneelers and coping, which displays the Cresswell arms featuring a squirrel rampant. The gables are coped and also have moulded kneelers. There are two stepped and corniced ashlar ridge stacks with conjoined shafts. Each cottage has a flanking set-back porch with boarded doors, which are set in chamfered four-centred arches, and these porches also have moulded kneelers and coping.
Local climate
Church Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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