Post Office-Holly Cottage the Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Cottages. 1 related planning application.

Post Office-Holly Cottage the Square

WRENN ID
solitary-rafter-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
Cottages
Address
Post Office-Holly Cottage the Square, 1, 2, Kinnerton Road, Dodleston, CH4 9LT
OS grid reference
SJ 360 611
Coordinates
53.14404, -2.95725
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Post Office-Holly Cottage is a pair of cottages built in 1863 for the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. They are constructed of brown brick and feature grey slate gabled roofs. Each cottage has 1½ storeys and 2 bays, forming an L-shape, with the shorter arm facing Kinnerton Road and the longer arm facing the Square. Three gabled half dormers are visible from the Square. The lower storey openings have flat gauged brick arches. No. 2 retains iron lattice casements set in timber sub-frames, while No. 1 has 4-pane timber casements and a small hipped bay window in the gable facing Kinnerton Lane, all in unaltered openings. The interiors have not been inspected. The cottages around the Square, including Nos. 3-4 and 5-6, create a small formal layout, which is unusual for the Eaton Estate.

Local climate

Post Office-Holly Cottage the Square receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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