The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-frieze-wren
- 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
- The Cottage, Spurstow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 559 570
- Coordinates
- 53.10896, -2.65975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage constructed with a pebble dashed brick nogged timber frame and an added brick wing, topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features two bays. The entrance includes a boarded door with false strap hinges set within a lightweight trellis porch. The windows are two-light flush casements. The east gable showcases exposed timber framing with passing braces, sprockets, and spurs from the truss, indicating that the roof has been raised at the eaves. At the rear (south), the sandstone plinth and full timber frame are visible. The brick wing has been added to the west gable, which also features barge boards and gable end stacks. Inside, the cottage boasts bevelled beams and exposed ceiling joists.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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