4-8, Drury Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1971. Cottages. 10 related planning applications.
4-8, Drury Lane
- WRENN ID
- twisted-loggia-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1971
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 4-8, Drury Lane, Knutsford, WA16 6HA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 752 789
- Coordinates
- 53.30685, -2.37335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A range of five cottages, built around 1900, incorporating earlier structures. The cottages were designed by Richard Harding Watt. They are constructed of painted brick with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high with a nine-window front. There are paired doorways to the left and centre, and a single doorway to the right, all with overlights. The lower windows are casements with fixed lights. Cottages number 7 and 8 have very high overlights to their doorways and tall ground-floor windows, responding to the steeply sloping site. Two oriel windows are located on the upper right side, while the other upper windows have wooden balconies supported by struts. There is an archway at the rear, to the left. The rear elevations also feature balconies beneath an overhanging roofline. The end walls are finished with Mediterranean-style stacks. The interior has not been inspected and the cottages are part of a remarkable development in a Free Style architectural style, commissioned by Richard Harding Watt.
Local climate
4-8, Drury Lane sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 11 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- 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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