Model Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1979. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Model Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-slate-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Model Cottage, Chester Road, Cuddington, CW8 2DP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 609 708
- Coordinates
- 53.23289, -2.58658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Model Cottage is an estate cottage built around 1879 by and for John Douglas. It is constructed of orange brick in English garden wall bond with a Welsh slate roof and features a central ridge brick chimney. The cottage has a single storey and an attic, with a two-bay front. Notable architectural details include three chamfered bands and minimal buttresses at the corners. There is a band of brick diapering with plaster infill at the first floor. The ground storey includes a single light window and a five-light mullioned window with semi-circular brick heads. The left end features a projecting bay window under a lean-to roof, with a similar band of diapering, a four-light window, and impressed plaster decoration in the gable. The right side mirrors this design, with a hipped porch and a late 20th-century extension that matches the style of the original building. The cottage was illustrated by T Raffles Davison in The British Architect, volume II, 1879, page 204.
Local climate
Model Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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