The Bents is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1978. House. 1 related planning application.
The Bents
- WRENN ID
- guardian-nave-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Bents, Woodford Lane, Mottram St. Andrew, SK10 4LH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 882 810
- Coordinates
- 53.32639, -2.1785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bents is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with 18th century brickwork. It is currently undergoing major sympathetic reconstruction. The building is timber framed with wattle and daub infill, set on an ashlar and rubble plinth. The facade features English garden wall bond brick, and it has a Kerridge stone-slate roof. The plan is L-shaped, consisting of a small hall and solar, with much of the original timber framing still intact. On the left side, there is a 5-light wood mullioned window with a coved overhang in a gabled dormer.
Inside, there is a chamfered firebeam on a chamfered heckpost, along with chamfered ceiling beams that have a flat stop. The solar contains a fireplace with traces of a wattle and daub hood. The roof features tiebeam and collar trusses.
Local climate
The Bents 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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