Fountain Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fountain Cottages
- WRENN ID
- eternal-ashlar-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fountain Cottages, Stone House Lane, Peckforton, CW6 9TN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 538 569
- Coordinates
- 53.10798, -2.69101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages on the Peckforton Estate, likely dating from around 1860. They are constructed of brown brick with a tile roof. Each cottage is single-storey and attic, with two bays. A flush sandstone plinth runs along the base. Internal porches featuring elliptical arches and ledged and battened entrance doors, complete with false strap hinges, are located on the sides of the cottages. The windows are cast iron lattice casements, with 2 or 3 lights, stone sills, and deep skewback stone heads. Upper windows are positioned in gabled dormers, with lightly timbered apexes, and in the gable ends. Brick flues, set diagonally, rise from a weathered stone band at ridge level. The wide, overhanging main gables feature shaped purlins and plastered raking soffites.
Local climate
Fountain Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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