Wrights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Cottage.
Wrights Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-eave-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wrights Cottage, 25, Bates Lane, Helsby
- OS grid reference
- SJ 496 758
- Coordinates
- 53.27752, -2.75586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wrights Cottage is a cottage and former barn, likely built in the early 18th century, with significant alterations. It features whitewashed brick and sandstone construction, topped with a corrugated iron roof that was originally thatched. The cottage is two storeys high and has one window, with a gable facing the lane. It has flush quoins and a boarded door set in a skewback cambered opening. A small-pane casement window is located under a similar arch, while a small-pane horizontal sliding sash window can be found in the front bedroom and in the gable end of the rear bedroom. To the left of the door, there is a large, low, battered sandstone buttress. The gable is adorned with cyma kneelers, and a brick chimney is positioned immediately behind the gable coping. At the rear, there is a high stone wing wall alongside the road. The barn features a one-metre flush stone plinth at the rear, with brown brickwork above, double doors beneath a timber lintel, and two rows of three loophole vents. There are no internal features of special interest noted. The cottage that shares the same roof at the rear of the barn is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Wrights Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
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