The Counting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
The Counting House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-barrel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- The Counting House, 18, Swan Bank, Congleton, CW12 1AH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 857 629
- Coordinates
- 53.16382, -2.21479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Counting House is a late 19th-century building designed in the Tudor style. It is constructed of stone and features two storeys. At the centre, there is a slightly projecting bay with sham timber framing on the first storey and a projecting gable. The bay includes a four-light mullioned and transomed window above a five-light mullioned and transomed window below. To the left, there is a canted bay that extends over two storeys, also with mullioned and transomed windows. On the right side, a polygonal bartisan is topped with a slated pinnacle roof featuring a finial. The building has two pointed arched doorways with hood moulds; the right doorway has a 16-fielded-panelled divided door, while the left has a similar door with 12 panels. Stone clustered stacks are present, and the roof is steep and hipped, covered in green slates. Additionally, there is a pointed arched gateway on the right-hand side. The Counting House, along with Nos 12 and 14 and the National Westminster Bank, forms a group with No 2 and the Bull's Head Hotel on Mill Street.
Local climate
The Counting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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