Cottage Adjoining Henhurst Lock with Attached Stable to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Cottage.

Cottage Adjoining Henhurst Lock with Attached Stable to Rear

WRENN ID
moated-threshold-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1999
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SD 582 049
Coordinates
53.53981, -2.63184
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a cottage adjoining Henhurst Lock, with an attached stable at the rear. It likely dates from the early to mid 19th century and has been altered and restored. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a composition tile roof with brick chimneys. It has a rectangular plan that runs parallel to the canal, with a lean-to addition at the back. The cottage is two storeys high and has four windows on the front, arranged as two sets of two. There is a square-headed doorway offset to the left with a plain surround and a single-light window above it, flanked by two-light sash windows with plain surrounds. To the right, there is a similar doorway and a large canted oriel window positioned slightly above and to the right of this doorway. The left gable has a chimney, while the ridge chimney is offset to the right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Cottage Adjoining Henhurst Lock with Attached Stable to Rear 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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