Towngate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. House.
Towngate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-slate-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Towngate Cottage, Budworth Road, Aston by Budworth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 696 790
- Coordinates
- 53.30794, -2.45763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Towngate Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with rendered brick infill and a slate roof. The building has a three-cell baffle-entry plan and was originally one storey but has been converted to two storeys.
The front elevation has a stone and brick plinth and consists of fifteen by thirteen cells of small framing. There are angle braces at the corners and in the fourth and eighth bays. The doorway is located to the right of the centre, with a four-light casement window to the left of the door and a three-light casement window to the right.
The right-hand gable end displays five by three cells of small framing, with queen struts and angle struts visible in the gable. The rear facade shows ten by three cells of small framing, with angle braces in the left corner and in the fourth and seventh bays. There is a 20th-century kitchen addition to the right and a 20th-century dormer window on the east side.
Local climate
Towngate Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% 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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