The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
guardian-moulding-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 April 1975
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Brookside Road, Congleton
OS grid reference
SJ 858 631
Coordinates
53.16528, -2.21251
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an early to mid-19th century building constructed of red brick with bands of blue brick. It is a single-storey structure featuring gabled ends and three casement windows, which have gables above them. The ground floor windows are adorned with keyblocks and channelled lintels. The building has a simple doorway and boldly projecting eaves, topped with old stone slates.

Local climate

The Cottage 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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