Abbey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Abbey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-steel-spring
- 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
- Abbey Cottage, Sawley, BB7 4LE
- OS grid reference
- SD 776 463
- Coordinates
- 53.91319, -2.34231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Cottage is a house that features late medieval remains. It is constructed of rubble and has a roof made of imitation stone slates. The building has two storeys. The north wall contains four windows on each floor, which are irregularly spaced and have plain reveals. The south wall includes an outshut and a projecting chimney stack at the left-hand end. There is a single-storey gabled porch on the right, which is a mid-20th century replacement of a stair outshut. To the left of the porch is one window, and to the right are two windows. On the first floor, there are two additional windows, all with plain reveals.
The east gable has been reconstructed in the mid-20th century and features a chimney stack along with a window on each floor that has a chamfered surround and a Tudor-arched head. The west gable has a window with a chamfered surround and a central mullion, which has also been reconstructed. On the first floor, there is a three-light double hollow-chamfered mullioned window with round heads to the lights and a hood. The cottage is said to be a post-Reformation conversion of part of the Abbot's House of Sawley Abbey.
Local climate
Abbey 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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