Wigshaw House is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1983. House.
Wigshaw House
- WRENN ID
- old-chapel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North MP: Charlotte Nichols (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wigshaw House, Wigshaw Lane, Croft
- OS grid reference
- SJ 647 947
- Coordinates
- 53.4487, -2.532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wigshaw House is an early 19th-century house built of red brick with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays. The entrance features a moulded doorframe with a bracketed transom and a plain elliptical fanlight, all set under a rubbed elliptical arch and flanked by rebated brick reveals. The door is framed, battened, and studded, complete with false strap hinges. The windows are recessed sashes with glazing bars, stone sills, and flat skewback lintels. The eaves cornice is flush moulded and bracketed, and there are sandstone stacks at the ridge and gable ends.
Local climate
Wigshaw House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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