Church Cottage Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. A C18 Cottage, museum.

Church Cottage Museum

WRENN ID
fading-steel-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1986
Type
Cottage, museum
Address
Church Cottage Museum, Church Lane, Broughton, PR3 5LD
OS grid reference
SD 529 344
Coordinates
53.80384, -2.71637
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage Museum is an 18th-century cottage that opened as a museum in 1995. It is primarily constructed of hand-made brick and features a steeply-pitched corrugated iron roof with boarded eaves. The building has two bays, with the northern section having one and a half storeys and the southern section having two storeys. At the junction of the two bays, there is a modern glazed porch. The north bay includes a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light dormer window in the eaves, while the south bay has a three-light sliding sash window with glazing bars on each floor. The right gable features an external chimney stack, and the left gable has been rebuilt in grey brick. At the rear, there is a low lean-to extension.

Inside, the lower part of the north bay is divided by an axial partition, with both sections featuring chamfered beams—cyma-stopped in the southern part and run-out in the northern part. The interior retains original rafters, joists, and other structural elements, along with a quarter-turned staircase located in the rear inner corner of the north bay.

Local climate

Church Cottage Museum sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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