Ovenback Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. House.
Ovenback Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-cupola-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ovenback Cottage, Agden Lane, High Legh
- OS grid reference
- SJ 716 850
- Coordinates
- 53.36146, -2.42765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ovenback Cottage is a house dating from around 1664, with additions and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a stone plinth, a timber frame with brick infill, and a thatched roof. The building consists of two cells with small framing and angle braces. There is a door located to the left of the center, with two-light casements on both the right and left sides. A central ridge stack is present, along with substantial additions to the rear from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Ovenback Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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