Vine Cottage and Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Vine Cottage and Smithy Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
Vine Cottage and Smithy Cottage, Chester Road, Aldford and Saighton, CH3 6HJ
OS grid reference
SJ 421 591
Coordinates
53.12671, -2.86605
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vine Cottage and Smithy Cottage are a pair of cottages built around 1863 for the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. They are constructed from brown brick with a front in Flemish bond and feature a grey slate gabled roof with a narrow span. The cottages have a central brick chimney that is stone-capped and stand two storeys high. Notable architectural details include dentillated eaves, gauged brick heads above the window and door openings, and Gothick iron casements. The lower storey has three-light casements, while the upper storey has two-light casements, both with simulated bar tracery and circlets on the sides. The doors are framed and boarded. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

Vine Cottage and Smithy 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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