The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-kitchen-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Stocks Lane, Peover Superior and Snelson, WA16 8TU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 785 739
- Coordinates
- 53.26195, -2.32251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features a timber frame with rendered infill and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of two rooms. The entrance front displays a 10 by 3 cell arrangement of small framing on a rendered plinth. There is a 20th-century porch on the left, with two 3-light 19th-century casement windows on the ground floor and two 3-light 20th-century dormers on the first floor. The right gable end has a 6 by 3 cell arrangement of small framing, with a queen-post truss and V-strut at the apex, along with a three-light gable attic window and a central chimney stack. At the rear, there is small framing with a 19th-century outshut. An 18th-century house, which is not listed, is attached to the left gable end. Inside, the ground floor features small framing and chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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