Aldford Lodge to Eaton Park, and Attached Avenue Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Lodge, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Aldford Lodge to Eaton Park, and Attached Avenue Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-jade-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Lodge, cottage
- Address
- Aldford Lodge to Eaton Park, and Attached Avenue Cottage, Church Lane, Aldford and Saighton, CH3 6JD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 421 594
- Coordinates
- 53.12891, -2.86613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aldford Lodge to Eaton Park and the attached Avenue Cottage are a pair of cottages built in 1877 for the 1st Duke of Westminster, likely designed by Alfred Waterhouse. They feature stone-banded and dressed brickwork on a stone plinth, with pargetted gable heads and red tile roofs that have two shaped brick chimneys. Each cottage is one and a half storeys tall, with approximately two bays and an irregular massing. The windows have deeply moulded stone surrounds, with camber arches on the lower storey and semi-circular arches on the upper. The left cottage has a recessed porch and Tudor-arched doorways. The design includes significant projection and recession, highlighted by stone and brick buttresses. Most lower storey windows have small-pane iron casements, while the lodge lobby and upper storey windows feature leaded glazing. The gables display the letter "W," the year 1877, and foliated geometric patterns in the pargetting.
Local climate
Aldford Lodge to Eaton Park, and Attached Avenue Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
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- 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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