Wharf Cottage, Audlem Wharf, at Sj 657 436 is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1991. Lock cottage.
Wharf Cottage, Audlem Wharf, at Sj 657 436
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-pinnacle-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1991
- Type
- Lock cottage
- Address
- Wharf Cottage, Audlem Wharf, at Sj 657 436, Shropshire Union Canal
- OS grid reference
- SJ 657 436
- Coordinates
- 52.98904, -2.51159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wharf Cottage, located at Audlem Wharf along the Audlem Shropshire Union Canal, is a lock cottage built between 1827 and 1830. It is a two-storey variant of Thomas Telford's standard design, constructed of brick with an overhanging slate roof and two chimneys. The building features a large polygonal bay with a hipped roof, which includes three cambered arch four-light sash windows on the ground floor. Above this bay, there is a similar window flanked by two flat-arched blind windows. To the left of the bay, there is a single cambered arch four-light sash window on each floor, along with a small 20th-century window on the first floor. To the right of the bay, there is a low entrance lobby extension with a cambered arch doorway and a 20th-century part-glazed door.
Local climate
Wharf Cottage, Audlem Wharf, at Sj 657 436 receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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