The Thatched Cottage (Right of A Pair) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Thatched Cottage (Right of A Pair)
- WRENN ID
- tenth-steeple-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage (Right of A Pair), School Lane, Aldford and Saighton, CH3 6HZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 417 592
- Coordinates
- 53.12734, -2.87139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage, located on the west side of School Lane in Aldford, is a cottage built before 1837, likely for the 1st Marquis of Westminster. It is constructed from red squared snecked sandstone and features a thatched roof with two stone chimneys that have tall, slender diagonal flues. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has three windows. It has a projecting corbelled upper storey and iron lattice casements set under label lintels. There is a thatched dormer on the front left, which contains a 20th-century timber casement. The right front gable includes a stone niche, and there are thatched eyebrow dormers at the rear. The materials and detailing indicate that the cottage was built around 1810 to 1820, reflecting the style of a cottage ornée. Inside, the doors are made of three or four wide boards, painted, and likely made of softwood from the early 19th century. The cottage is adjacent to a 17th-century oak-framed thatched cottage, which it was designed to complement.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage (Right of A Pair) 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Thatched Cottage (Left of A Pair)
- Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane
- 1 (Clematis Cottage), 2, 3 and 4 (The Bungalow) Middle Lane
- Rushmere View
- Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Churchyard Wall and Gates, Church of St John the Baptist
- Cross and Stepped Base East of Path to South Porch of Church of St John the Baptist
- K6 Telephone Kiosk, Between Frontages of Institute and Old Rectory
- Sundial and Pier West of South Porch of Church of St John the Baptist
- Church of St John the Baptist