Eagle and Child Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. House.
Eagle and Child Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gateway-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Eagle and Child Cottage, Congleton Road, Nether Alderley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 843 761
- Coordinates
- 53.28195, -2.23642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eagle and Child Cottage is a building that originally served as a farmhouse, later becoming an inn, and is now a house. It dates from the 17th century, with a later 17th-century outshut and guttering dated 1688, and a west range added in the later 18th century. The building has an L-shaped plan. The north range is timber framed with brick nogging, set on a sandstone plinth, and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge, and three brick chimneys. It is two stories high with a two-bay north front. The small framing includes small panelling under the upper windows. The left bay has a board door in a bead-moulded doorcase and a five-light wood mullioned window with lattice leaded glazing, situated under a coved overhang in a gabled half dormer that has herringboning in the gable. The right bay steps forward under a gable and features a five-light chamfered wood mullioned window with lattice leaded glazing below and a similar three-light window with rectangular lead glazing above. An outshut, added to the rear, is constructed in timber framing, and the black painted lead guttering reads "TD 1688."
Inside, the cottage has bead-moulded ceiling beams and a cyma-moulded stone corner fireplace, along with large cellars accessed by a stone flight of steps. The west range is built in washed English garden wall bond brick, with a Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge, and two brick chimneys. The right four bays were once a separate house and feature segmental rough brick heads above two-light wooden casements. To the left is a former coachhouse that has been converted into a garage and conservatory. This range is connected to the other by a single-storey passage.
Local climate
Eagle and Child Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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