Winterbottom Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Farmhouse.

Winterbottom Farmhouse

WRENN ID
former-frieze-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Winterbottom Farmhouse, Mill Lane, Goostrey
OS grid reference
SJ 769 711
Coordinates
53.23693, -2.34641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Winterbottom Farmhouse is a former gamekeeper's cottage dating from 1670, as noted on the door head, with late 19th-century alterations. The building features a brick nogged timber frame and brickwork, topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and consists of three bays. The entrance has a half-glazed 19th-century door set in a heavy chamfered frame, complete with external architraves and a narrow overlight. Above the entrance, there is an oak beam that is ogee moulded and bears the initials L AE along with the date.

The entrance is sheltered by a gabled porch made of softwood timber framing and brick nogging, which includes decorative barge boards. The ground floor has four-light casements with wooden lintels and two courses of terracotta sills, while the first floor features rounded heads on its windows. A stone plinth-cornice is present, with brickwork below that is laid in English garden wall bond up to the first floor. The facade includes small framing timbers with angle braces, visible on the first floor and one gable. An attic dormer is positioned above the front entrance, and there is a square central stack with recessed panels. A rear wing on the north side completes a "T" shaped plan. Inside, the farmhouse contains small chamfered beams and cased beams, along with 19th-century four-panel doors.

Local climate

Winterbottom Farmhouse 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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