Wood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Cottage.
Wood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- pitched-arch-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wood Cottages, Whitchurch Road, Peckforton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 557 559
- Coordinates
- 53.09857, -2.66184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Cottages is an early 17th-century cottage that has undergone alterations and additions. It features a plastered timber frame and a thatched roof, standing two storeys tall with four window bays. The north wing creates an "L" shaped plan. The east gable displays very close-set studding, with a rail only to the window head. There are angle braces at the slightly jettied gable apex, which showcases timbers in a chevron style. A modern boarded door is set within an added porch. The replaced mullion windows are fitted with casements that have leaded lattice glazing, with those on the first floor located in gabled half dormers. The walls are primarily rendered brickwork, with only a few timbers exposed. Inside, the cottage features ovolo moulded and bevelled beams, along with exposed joists and purlins that include wind braces.
Local climate
Wood Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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