Arches Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Arches Cottage

WRENN ID
stark-mantel-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1984
Type
House
Address
Arches Cottage, Sawley
OS grid reference
SD 776 465
Coordinates
53.91435, -2.34215
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Arches Cottage is a pair of houses, likely built around 1600, with later alterations and possibly some earlier features. The building has two storeys. The western house features a four-light mullioned window with an inner hollow chamfer and outer casement moulding. To the right of this window is another window with plain reveals beneath a wider Tudor-arched doorhead. On the first floor, there is a three-light window with hollow-chamfered mullions and a re-used moulded head, alongside a two-light mullioned window from the 19th century. A straight joint on the right suggests that the adjoining house may be older, which also has a single-storey gabled porch.

The eastern house has a window with an architrave on the left and another with a plain stone surround on the right. On the first floor, there are two sashed windows with plain stone surrounds, and to the left, there is a blocked one-light chamfered window. The door, now located within the porch, has a chamfered stone surround. The left-hand gable features a projecting stack, while the chimney between the houses has a cap made from part of an embattled medieval chimney cap. The rear wall has openings with plain reveals, and on the right-hand side of the first floor, there is a chamfered opening with a segmental head, which has been converted into a window.

Local climate

Arches Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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