Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Cottage.
Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane
- WRENN ID
- final-solder-claret
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane, School Lane, Aldford and Saighton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 417 591
- Coordinates
- 53.12659, -2.87123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The most southern pair of cottages, located north of the corner of Rushmere Lane, were built around 1875 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. These cottages feature a handed design with a brown brick lower storey and a white rendered upper storey, which includes floral pargetted panels beneath the windows and at the tops of the paired dormer gables on the front. The cottages have a red tile hipped roof with a central chimney made of shaped brickwork. Each cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has one window. There is an arched timber-framed porch on the left under a catslide roof, while a similar side porch is located on the right. The lower storey has small-pane iron casements set under camber-arches, and the upper storey features windows in timber surrounds that project from the wall. The doors are boarded. Along with Clements Cottages on Middle Lane and Nos. 1 to 4 Rushmere Lane, this pair represents an early example of the Free Style in Cheshire.
Local climate
Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane 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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