Brimmicroft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Cottage.
Brimmicroft Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-portal-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brimmicroft Cottage, Bolton Road, Withnell
- OS grid reference
- SD 625 247
- Coordinates
- 53.71791, -2.56936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brimmicroft Cottage is a mid-18th century cottage that retains parts of an earlier building at each end and has been altered over time. It is constructed from watershot coursed sandstone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. The cottage has a double-depth, two-bay plan and stands two storeys high, with an almost symmetrical appearance and gable chimneys. On the left side, there is a boarded and glazed door set in a plain surround, which is protected by a glazed porch. The front has two windows on each floor, with three lights on the left and two lights on the right; the ground floor windows have square stone mullions, while the upper windows are sliding sashes with glazing bars. To the left, there is a single-storey continuation that was formerly topped with a very steeply-pitched roof, as suggested by the water-tabling; this section includes a recessed three-light chamfered mullion window and a stable door. There is a later addition at the right end, along with the ruins of a 17th-century building beyond that. At the rear, there are two two-light square mullioned windows at ground floor and one above. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Brimmicroft Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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