Brassey's Contract Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1983. Cottage.
Brassey's Contract Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-vestry-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brassey's Contract Cottage, Brassey's Contract Road, No Man's Heath and District
- OS grid reference
- SJ 486 504
- Coordinates
- 53.04841, -2.76758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brassey's Contract Cottage is a mid 17th century cottage that has undergone alterations and additions. It features a timber frame with some painted brick nogging and has a roof made of corrugated iron sheeting over thatch. The building stands on a stone plinth in part and is 1½ storeys high with a 2-cell plan. There is a projecting brick stack on the right-hand gable, while the left gable has an internal brick stack. The cottage has timber casements, gable end attic windows, and a boarded door.
Local climate
Brassey's Contract Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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