City Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
City Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-flagstone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- City Cottage, New Street, Mawdesley, L40 2QZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 499 150
- Coordinates
- 53.62995, -2.75866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
City Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, altered over time. It has a high stone plinth and walls built with a post-and-rail framing system, featuring straight arch-braces connecting to the wallplate. The roof is covered with stone slates, and there is a brick chimney at the right gable. The cottage is two bays wide with a 1½-story height. The entrance is through a modern addition on the left side. Two fixed, three-light windows are located below the wall rail, one in each bay, and a dormer window has been inserted into the second bay. The rear elevation is similar, although altered with small windows added below the rail in each panel. The rear wall bracing originates only from the centre post. A doorway with a nicked lintel is centrally positioned on the rear.
Inside, the cottage has a complete timber-frame construction. A lateral partition wall contains two doorways, one altered and the other blocked beneath a cambered lintel. A similar longitudinal partition divides the first bay. The interior also includes chamfered beams and, at the first floor, two close-together timber-framed partitions, each with original doorways. The roof structure is windbraced.
Local climate
City Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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