Butler's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1978. Cottage.
Butler's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-plinth-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Butler's Cottage, Prestbury Road, Over Alderley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 872 767
- Coordinates
- 53.28726, -2.19319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butler's Cottage is a cottage that served as the residence for the butler at Hare Hill. It was built in the early 19th century and underwent alterations in the mid-19th century. The cottage is constructed from rusticated brick and features a Welsh slate roof with two gable plastered chimneys. It has a symmetrical two-storey front with three bays. The end bays contain three-light wooden casements with lozenge-shaped panes set on stone sills. There is a framed and boarded door located behind a rustic gabled wooden trellised porch. To the right of the entrance, there is a simple verandah supported by brick piers. The building was refenestrated during a period when the house and its lodges were made to appear more picturesque, although this cottage remains a more modest structure.
Local climate
Butler's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
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