The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. A C18 House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-trefoil-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 1, Ernocroft Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 981 910
- Coordinates
- 53.41655, -2.02937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dated 1719, as indicated by the inscription on the door lintel. It is constructed from coursed rubble and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with stone quoins. The door, located in the third bay, has a chamfered stone surround and a dated lintel. There are three windows on the ground floor, two on the first floor, and one gable window, all with three lights and flat-faced mullions. The first bay projects and has been extended to the left in the 20th century, featuring 20th-century casement windows. The house has a ridge chimney stack and inside, there are chamfered and ovolo-moulded ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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