Trent and Mersey Canal Stop Lock Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Trent and Mersey Canal Stop Lock Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
muted-chamber-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Trent and Mersey Canal Stop Lock Keeper's Cottage, Dutton, WA4 4LA
OS grid reference
SJ 575 787
Coordinates
53.3036, -2.63915
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Stop Lock Keeper's Cottage, located on the west side of the Trent and Mersey Canal in Dutton, is an early 19th-century lock-keeper's cottage. It is constructed of whitewashed brick and features a graded grey slate roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has a symmetrical layout with two rooms. The entrance consists of a boarded door with a blocked semi-circular fanlight above it. On the lower storey, there are two 16-pane casement windows, while the upper storey has two 12-pane casement windows that are adorned with cambered arches and projecting stone cills. Above the doorway, there is a rectangular blank recess, and the verges are decorated with two courses of corbelled brickwork. The cottage also has flush gable chimneys made of blue brick. To the left gable-end, there is a single-storey outshut made of brick with a slate roof, which includes a boarded door. The interior of the cottage could not be inspected.

Local climate

Trent and Mersey Canal Stop Lock Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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