Chara Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. House.
Chara Cottage
- WRENN ID
- veiled-sentry-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chara Cottage, 103 and 103a, Shellfield Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 365 197
- Coordinates
- 53.67002, -2.96245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chara Cottage is a pair of houses located on Shellfield Road in Southport, likely built in the late 18th century and altered over time. The exterior features white painted roughcast, probably over brick, with a slate roof. The buildings are single storey with a single-depth plan, and there is a 20th-century addition at the rear. The front has one window on one side and three large 20th-century casements on the other. The interior has not been inspected. Chara Cottage is part of a group of similar houses on this road, which have all been altered but still represent the pre-industrial character of the area.
Local climate
Chara 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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