St Johns Cottage and Wall to Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Detached house. 2 related planning applications.

St Johns Cottage and Wall to Front Garden

WRENN ID
gaunt-corbel-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Detached house
Address
St Johns Cottage and Wall to Front Garden, Little St John Street, CH1 1RE
OS grid reference
SJ 408 660
Coordinates
53.18858, -2.88606
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St John's Cottage is a detached house that likely originated in the 17th century, although most of its visible features date from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of irregular bond brown brick, with the east end and rear covered in pebbledash, topped by a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front.

The cottage is two storeys high with an attic and features five windows. The front includes a small two-storey projection on the left side, which has a blank front and left side, a ground floor window with a 6-pane casement and a one-pane transom above, and a flush 12-pane sash window on the first floor to the right. The main façade displays a variety of flush windows with minimal sills and cambered brick heads, including an 8-pane sash, a 12-pane sash, a 4-pane casement, a 16-pane sash, and a part-glazed door set in a simple tripartite pedimented case. The ground floor also features a 16-pane sash and a 12-pane sash, along with a tripartite window with 4;12;4 panes. On the first floor, there are two 12-pane sashes and five casements in gabled half-dormers of varying light configurations. A chimney is located near the left end of the building, just before the ridge.

At each end of the cottage, there is a 12-pane sash window on the first floor. The rear of the building has a two-and-a-half-storey gabled projecting porch on the second bay from the east, with a one-storey outshut to the east and another that tapers to the main wall on the west. The rear features a 4-panel door with a flat hood and irregular window patterns, mostly consisting of small-pane casements. There is a chimney at the northeast corner and another flush chimney to the west of the porch. The design and structure of the porch and the lean of the walls suggest that there may be a timber frame concealed beneath the pebbledash. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

St Johns Cottage and Wall to Front Garden receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
  • 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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