Brownlow Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse, cottage.
Brownlow Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quiet-keep-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Brownlow Cottages, Childs Lane, Newbold Astbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 833 611
- Coordinates
- 53.14698, -2.25022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brownlow Cottages is a farmhouse that has been converted into two farm cottages, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a deep basement.
The entrance front is symmetrically arranged with two bays. It has a deep, slightly projecting plinth and ashlar quoins at the corners. In the center, there is a 20th-century staircase with brick side walls that leads up to the ground floor doorway, flanked by blocked basement entrances. The ground floor includes a central half-glazed doorway and lateral 2-light casement windows that have replaced the original sash windows. On the first floor, there is a similar window to the left. The left side of the building also features ashlar quoins and two 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors.
On the right side, there is a projecting single-storey gabled wing to the left, with ground and first floor windows of 2 lights to the right. At the rear, there is a later projecting gabled wing that is two storeys high with two bays and a band dividing the floors. This wing has a hipped roof with 20th-century tiling and a central chimney stack with two flues.
Local climate
Brownlow Cottages receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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