Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. House.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-quartz-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Barns Lane, Dunham Massey
- OS grid reference
- SJ 724 880
- Coordinates
- 53.38828, -2.41639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick and topped with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a layout that is two rooms deep and two rooms wide, with a central entrance and no hall. There is a slightly later lean-to on the left side and an outshut at the rear. The entrance includes a six-panel door with a fanlight and a decorative timber porch. The cottage has a total of four windows, which have wedge lintels and stone sills, and are sashed with glazing bars. There are late 19th-century gable stacks, and the rear of the building features casement windows.
Local climate
Willow Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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