Rake Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Rake Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-railing-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rake Farm Cottage, Village Street, CH64 5TE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 314 742
- Coordinates
- 53.26036, -3.02867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rake Farm Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations and restoration around 1975. Originally timber-framed, it is now encased in brown brick on a rubble sandstone plinth, topped with a tile roof featuring brick end stacks.
The cottage has a two-storey, two-bay front. The plinth still shows a blocked 2-light mullioned window. Four steps lead up to a 20th-century framed door that is ledged and braced, set beneath a brick segmental arch with a turning piece. To the right of the door is a replacement 3-light flush casement window with glazing bars, also under a segmental arch. On the first floor, there is a similar window positioned tightly under the eaves, along with a 2-course projecting band at the first-floor level.
Inside, timber-framing was discovered during the restoration in the 1970s, and some wall timbers, beams, and ceiling joists are now exposed.
Local climate
Rake Farm Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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