Congleton Chronicle is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Commercial building.
Congleton Chronicle
- WRENN ID
- strange-wall-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Congleton Chronicle, 11, High Street, CW12 1BW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 859 629
- Coordinates
- 53.16306, -2.21115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congleton Chronicle is a building located at No. 11 High Street, dating from around 1800. It is constructed of red brick and stands three storeys tall. The front features one plain sash window and one Venetian window, both framed in stucco surrounds. The Venetian window is adorned with Tuscan pilasters and a moulded wreath above. On the second storey, there are four sash windows, all set in moulded stucco surrounds, and the building has moulded wood eaves and a slate roof. The ground floor has modern shop fronts. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the rear wing facing Market Square. This rear elevation has a similar style, featuring three sash windows with keyblocks and channelled lintels, a semi-circular headed doorway with a stone arch and keyblock, and wood modillion eaves cornice. The Congleton Chronicle is part of a group that includes the Town Hall and Nos 7 to 11 on the odd side of the street.
Local climate
Congleton Chronicle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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