Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Parish rooms and caretakers house. 1 related planning application.

Church House

WRENN ID
crumbling-jamb-ochre
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
Parish rooms and caretakers house
Address
Church House, Bent Lane, Warburton, WA13 9TQ
OS grid reference
SJ 704 891
Coordinates
53.39867, -2.44536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House is a building dating from 1889, designed by John Douglas. It serves as parish rooms and a caretaker's house. The structure is made of English garden wall bond brick with sandstone dressings and has a clay tile roof. It is T-shaped, consisting of two storeys with a lower two-storey wing at the rear that forms the house.

The parish rooms are four bays long, with the first bay projecting as the head of the T, and a 20th-century lean-to on the left. Each bay features a three-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window on the ground floor. There are two weathered buttresses, a decorative lozenge band in brick and painted plaster, and a dormer window between the second and third bays. The first bay also has a first-floor window, similar to those below, along with a gable that includes lozenge panels, carved bargeboards, and finials.

The two-bay house section has a moulded stone door surround with a dated lintel, and features one, three, and four-light mullion windows, a buttress, and a first-floor lozenge band matching that of the parish rooms. The rear of the building includes dormer windows and impressive chimney stacks.

Local climate

Church House 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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