Weir and Bridge by Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Weir, bridge.

Weir and Bridge by Wayside Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-landing-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Weir, bridge
Address
Weir and Bridge by Wayside Cottage, Rainow
OS grid reference
SJ 944 764
Coordinates
53.28488, -2.08519
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The weir and bridge by Wayside Cottage were built around 1800 for James Mellor senior. They are constructed from coursed squared buff sandstone rubble with hammer-dressed copings. The weir features 14 stone steps and is flanked by revetment walls that curve at the top towards the pool. At the base of the weir, these walls connect to a bridge that has two segmental rubble arches with projecting rubble courses above, supported by rectangular piers. The bridge has plain parapets with flat copings. At the south-west corner, the parapet continues and curves to enclose a solid rectangular stone trough with two basins carved out of it. This structure is associated with the now-demolished Hough-hole cotton-spinning mill, which was located in the garden of Wayside Cottage.

Local climate

Weir and Bridge by Wayside Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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