Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1978. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Chestnut Cottage

WRENN ID
over-pedestal-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1978
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Chestnut Cottage, Low Road, Besthorpe, NG23 7HJ
OS grid reference
SK 825 648
Coordinates
53.17422, -0.76666
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Cottage is a late 17th-century farmhouse constructed of brick with burnt headers. It has a steep-pitched pantile roof, a brick plinth, dentillated eaves, two brick bands on the east gable, brick coped gables with kneelers, and a single off-centre ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and originally three bays wide. A 20th-century door is positioned off-centre and flanked to the east by another 20th-century casement. To the west of the door is a single 20th-century casement, beyond which is a 20th-century bow window. Above, there are three 19th-century, two-light Yorkshire sash windows. The east gable has a single 19th-century glazing bar casement; above it is a blocked window. Attached to the east side is a 19th-century brick outbuilding of one storey and three bays, with a pantile roof. This outbuilding features a central close-boarded door flanked to the west by a single glazing bar top-hung ventilator.

Local climate

Chestnut Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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