School House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1974. House. 1 related planning application.

School House Cottage

WRENN ID
quiet-spindle-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 January 1974
Type
House
Address
School House Cottage, Toft Road, Knutsford, WA16 9EH
OS grid reference
SJ 757 769
Coordinates
53.28878, -2.36511
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School House Cottage is a house dated 1841, built by the Toft Estate. It is constructed of painted brick and features an overhanging Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and a two-window range, with a central entrance located in a gabled porch. There are two wide gables with plain bargeboards above the upper windows. The ground floor has three-light casement windows, while the upper floor has two-light casement windows, both with leaded lights and stone hoodmoulds. Similar windows are present on the return elevations. Above the porch, there is a stone featuring a coat of arms and the date in low relief. The house has a central polygonal stack. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

School House Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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