Arley Green School and Arley Green Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1959. A C16 School, lodge.

Arley Green School and Arley Green Lodge

WRENN ID
lesser-stronghold-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1959
Type
School, lodge
Address
Arley Green School and Arley Green Lodge, Aston by Budworth
OS grid reference
SJ 681 808
Coordinates
53.32341, -2.47962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Arley Green School and Arley Green Lodge is a building that originated as a barn in the early 16th century and was converted into a school around 1830. It features a stone plinth, brick and timber framing with rendered brick infill, and a stone slate roof. The building is single storey.

The east front has a layout of 20 by 2 cells of small framing, with a middle stud in the lower row of cells. The upper row displays chevroning and includes five 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, each two cells wide. There is a doorway located at the ninth cell from the right and a dormer to the right. Adjoining to the left is a 19th-century cottage that has a brick chimney breast with two flues and offsets.

The attached cottage, known as Arley Green Lodge, features close studding with arched braces and a gabled dormer on the upper right side. The left gable end has timber framing and a bay window. Inside, the building contains four full crucks, two of which have two spurs and one with three spurs. All trusses have ties and collars that extend to the side walls, with small posts and yokes rising from the ties to meet the middle spurs, which are angled, along with wind bracing.

Local climate

Arley Green School and Arley Green Lodge 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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