Hollybank Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. Cottage.
Hollybank Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-brass-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hollybank Cottage, Barracks Lane, Burland and Acton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 622 504
- Coordinates
- 53.05012, -2.56486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hollybank Cottage is an early 17th-century cottage constructed with a brick-nogged timber frame. Originally thatched, it now features an asbestos-cement slate roof. The building has two storeys and a three-window facade with a 12-panel design, as well as a seven-panel gable made with small framing and passing braces. There is a 20th-century lean-to and porch on the west side, supported by two timber posts and topped with a tiled roof. The porch includes an oak boarded door with false strap hinges. The windows are flush casements with glazing bars, and the gable has barge boards. A rebuilt central stack is present, and at the rear, a large 20th-century wing completes a "T" shaped plan. Inside, the cottage features bevelled beams and exposed joists, with an inglenook beam over the fireplace that has stone side cheeks. The original rear wall timbers are covered by the new south wing, and there are bevelled purlins with wind braces.
Local climate
Hollybank Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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