Nelson Cottage (Number 15) and Dover Cottage (Number 16) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1962. Houses.
Nelson Cottage (Number 15) and Dover Cottage (Number 16)
- WRENN ID
- ancient-parapet-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1962
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Nelson Cottage (Number 15) and Dover Cottage (Number 16), Station Road, Neston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 280 778
- Coordinates
- 53.29296, -3.08071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nelson Cottage (Number 15) and Dover Cottage (Number 16) are a pair of houses located on Station Road in Parkgate Village, Neston. They were built in the early 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of roughcast brick, with Number 15 whitened, and feature a slate roof with a brick-coped left gable and rendered stacks.
The exterior showcases three storeys, with each house having a two-window front. Number 15 has a two-panel front door in a half-heck form, while Number 16 features a half-glazed four-panel front door, both of which are sheltered by plain stone hoods supported on consoles. Number 15 includes a flat-roofed canted bay window to the left of the door and a pointed two-sided oriel window to the right, both of which are new 20th-century windows with glazing bars. On the first floor of Number 15, there are two 8/8 sash windows, while Number 16 has 6/6 sash windows on both the ground and first floors. The second floor of both houses has horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars, with two in Number 15 and one in Number 16. There are projecting bands at the first and second floor levels. The left return of Number 16 features an added open porch with a lead roll hipped roof, leading to a half-glazed boarded door, and above it are original glazing bar sashes.
Inside, the cottages have boarded and four-panel doors, with wide boarded doors on strap hinges. The staircases feature winders and turned balusters, and there are exposed softwood chamfered beams, ceiling joists, and purlins throughout.
Local climate
Nelson Cottage (Number 15) and Dover Cottage (Number 16) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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