Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1982. A Georgian Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Holly Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
ancient-iron-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1982
Type
Cottage
Period
Georgian
Address
Holly Tree Cottage, Commonside, Alvanley, WA6 9HB
OS grid reference
SJ 502 744
Coordinates
53.26484, -2.74699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly Tree Cottage is a farmhouse and shippon, now a cottage, likely dating from the 18th century. The building is rendered, probably over brick or stone, and features a gabled thatched roof. It has one storey plus attic bedrooms and is a derivative of a longhouse design. There are 19th-century vernacular wood casements on each side of a replaced boarded door. The front has one rounded-gabled thatched dormer and a casement window in the left gable. A brick ridge chimney is located opposite the doorway, with another chimney on the left gable. The former farm building makes up the right half of the structure and includes two boarded doors, with the outer door divided. There are small casement windows in the lower storey of the right end gable, along with a boarded loading door above. An oak-framed wall separates the cottage from the farm building, featuring an oak truss with angled struts. The interior of the cottage has not been inspected.

Local climate

Holly Tree Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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