Old School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. Cottage, schoolmaster's house.
Old School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-string-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage, schoolmaster's house
- Address
- Old School Cottage, Stannage Lane, Churton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 417 567
- Coordinates
- 53.10458, -2.8719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old School Cottage is a schoolmaster's house that has been converted into a cottage. It was built in 1864 at the expense of the 2nd Marquis of Westminster and is attached to the former school, which is now the Mission Hall. The building is designed in the Jacobethan style and constructed from squared snecked red sandstone with a graded grey slate roof. It has one and a half storeys and features two windows, along with two rectangular diminishing chimneys on the ridge, which have rendered stacks on moulded stone plinths.
The entrance consists of a boarded door with a rectangular three-pane fanlight above it, which has a label. To the left of the door, there is a two-light four-pane casement window on each storey, with the upper window set in a gabled half-dormer. To the right, there is a slightly projecting cross-wing that includes a two-light four-pane casement window under a label on each storey. The right end of the building has a boarded door, with a two-light four-pane casement window to the left, a one-light two-pane casement window to the right, and a two-light four-pane casement window above the doorway, all featuring labels. The house and the former school were designed as a cohesive architectural composition. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old School 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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