Bickley Town Cottages, with Store Sheds at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1985. House.
Bickley Town Cottages, with Store Sheds at Rear
- WRENN ID
- late-pilaster-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bickley Town Cottages, with Store Sheds at Rear, 1 and 2, No Man's Heath and District
- OS grid reference
- SJ 530 486
- Coordinates
- 53.03268, -2.70102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bickley Town Cottages, with store sheds at the rear, is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century that was divided into two cottages, likely in the mid 19th century. The structure features brick-nogged oak small framing with narrow panels and large timbers, much of which has been replaced with brick that is painted to resemble framing. The roof is tiled with a steep pitch, having been thatched in the past.
The cottages are two stories high, each with a boarded door set in an open porch topped by a gabled slate roof supported by brackets. They also feature a one-story canted lattice bay window with a hipped slate roof, and above this, a gabled half-dormer lattice casement with bargeboards and finials. Cottage No. 1 includes a narrow staircase lattice window at the center of the front, and both cottages have lattice casements in the end gables. The lattice windows are made of cast iron. Each gable has a projecting brick chimney, along with a central ridge chimney.
At the rear, each cottage has a one-story gabled shed built in the mid 19th century, constructed of brick painted to look like framing. The shed for No. 1 has a slate roof, while No. 2 has been replaced with corrugated asbestos. These sheds were likely built as small farm buildings during the mid 19th century when the Marquess of Cholmondeley promoted giving plots of land to farm workers. Inside, Cottage No. 2 features two large chamfered oak beams, and the plans were altered in the mid 19th century.
Local climate
Bickley Town Cottages, with Store Sheds at Rear receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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