Elston Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. A C18 Farmhouse.
Elston Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-marble-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Elston Cottage, Elston Lane, Grimsargh
- OS grid reference
- SD 600 325
- Coordinates
- 53.78773, -2.60809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elston Cottage is an 18th-century farmhouse that has been altered and is now used as a house. It is constructed of coursed squared red and yellow sandstone with quoins and has a slate roof, with stone slate at the rear and a single gable chimney. The building has a double-depth, two-bay plan and is two storeys high with a symmetrical facade. The former central doorway has been changed into a window, and there are two 3-light windows with slightly recessed chamfered mullions on each floor. To the left of the gable wall, there is a modern garage with a pitched roof, and to the right, a glazed conservatory. The rear of the cottage features three 2-light windows similar to those at the front, and a doorway that has been altered into a window, opposite the front doorway. Inside, there have been changes to the internal partitions, but some large square beams and stout joists remain.
Local climate
Elston Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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