Tarvin Road Lock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Tarvin Road Lock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-buttress-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tarvin Road Lock Cottage, Old Pearl Lane, Great Boughton, CH3 5NE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 426 664
- Coordinates
- 53.19227, -2.85952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tarvin Road Lock Cottage is a late 18th-century lock-keeper's cottage, later altered in the mid-19th century, originally constructed for the Chester Canal Company. It is now a house. The exterior is constructed of washed English garden wall bond brick, with a Welsh slate roof and two integral gabled chimneys. The south front has three bays, with the central bay projecting slightly. This central bay features a tripartite sash window with glazing bars, set beneath a flat hood supported by brackets. Above is a semi-circular tripartite window with glazing bars. The left bay has a door with a simple porch, and a 16-pane sash window above. A 20th-century casement window is in the right bay. A semi-circular headed door gives access to the cellar from the north side. Inside, there are three rooms on each floor, including a cellar. Large cupboards with vertical boards and iron strap hinges are located on either side of the main fireplace.
Local climate
Tarvin Road Lock Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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