No 2 Rectory Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. House.

No 2 Rectory Cottages

WRENN ID
long-slate-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1983
Type
House
Address
No 2 Rectory Cottages, Foundary Lane, Halton-With-Aughton
OS grid reference
SD 500 648
Coordinates
54.07715, -2.76442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 Rectory Cottages is a 17th-century house constructed of slobbered rubble with a slate roof. It is a two-unit cruck building featuring gable stacks and a central entrance. The structure was altered from one storey to two when the top of the cruck truss was removed and the roof was raised. On either side of the door, there are rebated and chamfered window surrounds, each with a central mullion that has been removed. The window to the right has had its sill lowered. At the right end of the facade, there is a one-light fire window. The first-floor windows are modern and have plain reveals, and there is a modern door surround. Inside, the base of a cruck blade is exposed in the partition wall of the left room, rising from the front wall of the house. In the right room, there is a shouldered stone fireplace typical of the 18th century.

Local climate

No 2 Rectory Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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