Canal Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. A Georgian Cottage.
Canal Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-dormer-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Canal Cottage, Wheelock Wharf, Sandbach
- OS grid reference
- SJ 751 592
- Coordinates
- 53.12977, -2.37289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canal Cottage is a former canal workers' cottage, dating from around 1775, associated with canal engineer James Brindley. It is constructed of coloured brick and has a roof made of handmade tiles. The building is two storeys high and features two window bays, along with an additional blank bay on the west side that contains a door. The windows are two-light flush casements with glazing bars and segmental arch turning pieces on both levels, and the ground floor windows also have night vents. The wide boarded door is set in a frame under a segmental arch. There is evidence that the east bay was added around 1900, indicated by early block bonding between the windows. An external stack at the west gable end has been lowered to below roof level, while existing stacks are located at the east gable and one bay in from the west gable. The cottage also features gable barge boards. It is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Canal Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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