Dolphin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Dolphin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-cornice-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dolphin Cottage, Spurstow, CW6 9RF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 563 571
- Coordinates
- 53.10993, -2.65416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphin Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed with a brick-nogged timber frame and has a tile roof. The cottage is single-storey with an attic, originally comprising two bays, with a later brick lean-to at the west gable. A sandstone plinth is present, along with rectangular panelling with horizontal rails at the windows and at first-floor level. A boarded door is sheltered by a bracketted gabled canopy with curved braces to the apex and shaped barge boards with a finial. The windows are mainly three-light leaded casements with gudgeon-hung opening lights; those at the first floor are set within gabled dormers featuring barge boards and finials. The east gable is finished in painted brickwork, although timber framing is visible at the rear. Additional features include barge boards to the gables and gable end stacks. The interior retains bevelled beams and exposed ceiling joists.
Local climate
Dolphin Cottage 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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