Beeches Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Cottage.
Beeches Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-cinder-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beeches Cottage, Whitegate Road, Whitegate and Marton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 621 685
- Coordinates
- 53.21231, -2.56852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beeches Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, dated A.D. 1600 on a datestone featuring a shield. It has a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and a 20th-century machine-made pantile roof. The cottage is single storey.
On the entrance front, there are 12 x 2 cells of small framing with one angle brace located to the right of the center. To the right of the center is a 19th-century gabled porch, which has red sandstone lower walls and a timber upper body. The porch features a gabled roof with decorated bargeboards and a barge post. The front also includes five 2-light casement windows.
The rear of the cottage shows 7 x 2 cells of small framing on the left and 1 x 2 cells on the right, with a 19th or 20th-century outshut projecting between. There are angle braces to the far left and a sixth post from the left.
Local climate
Beeches Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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