Yarrow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Yarrow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-newel-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yarrow Cottage, Carr Lane, Croston, PR26 9HA
- OS grid reference
- SD 489 183
- Coordinates
- 53.65899, -2.7734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yarrow Cottage is a house that was formerly a curacy, built around 1800. It features white painted roughcast brick and has a low-pitched hipped slate roof. The building has a square plan measuring three by three bays, with various service extensions at the rear and side. It stands two storeys tall and has a symmetrical façade, with a central door that is topped by a semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The ground floor includes two large 16-pane sashed windows, while the upper floor has three 9-pane sashes. The eaves project, and there are two chimneys positioned closely together on the small central ridge. The left side has various service extensions, and there is a small bay window on the right return wall, with a wing that steps out to the rear. The rear and interior of the cottage have been altered.
Local climate
Yarrow Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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