Picture Gallery North West of Clonterbrook House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Picture gallery.

Picture Gallery North West of Clonterbrook House

WRENN ID
leaning-keystone-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1967
Type
Picture gallery
Address
Picture Gallery North West of Clonterbrook House, Trap Road, Swettenham
OS grid reference
SJ 821 672
Coordinates
53.20214, -2.2691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Picture Gallery, located northwest of Clonterbrook House, is a former barn dating from the early 18th century that has been converted into a gallery. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond and features a stone slab roof. The building is two storeys high with three truss bays. The main entrance consists of an oak double door, divided into two sections in height, which is hung on large strap hinges and set under a segmental arch positioned nearly at the eaves level. This door is flanked by square brick piers that reach the eaves, and there are breather holes arranged in a diamond pattern beside the piers. At the first floor level, there are two-light flush casements with glazing in the original pitch hole frames. The south gable features two six-panel doors, one of which provides access to the gallery on the first floor.

Inside, a gable door opens into a small hall that contains a wall staircase. Two walls are adorned with oak dado panelling, while one wall features full-height panelling. The straight flight of stairs, believed to have originated from Shavington Park in Shropshire, is supported by turned balusters and large square newels topped with moulded caps. On the first floor, there is two-panel-high oak dado panelling with reeded muntins that were sourced from Eaton Hall near Chester. The roof retains two original oak king post trusses, along with oak purlins and a ridgetree.

Local climate

Picture Gallery North West of Clonterbrook House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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