Rainhill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1971. Cottage.
Rainhill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-tracery-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rainhill Cottage, Warrington Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 503 899
- Coordinates
- 53.40396, -2.74817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rainhill Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Warrington Road in Rainhill. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a stone roof and has two storeys. The main block has undergone significant alterations, while the older wing features a gable end facing the road. This wing includes a three-light casement window on each floor, complete with labels. Additionally, the garden front of the wing is built in stone and showcases a four-light stone-mullioned window on each floor. A stair projection is situated at the angle between the wing and the main block.
Local climate
Rainhill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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