1, Old Road is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1988. Cottage.

1, Old Road

WRENN ID
peeling-beam-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lichfield
Constituency
Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 January 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
1, Old Road, Armitage with Handsacre
OS grid reference
SK 081 160
Coordinates
52.74238, -1.8804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 1 Old Road is a cottage dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a hipped plain tile roof with a stone and brick central stack. The building has an octagonal plan, with the entrance located to the east and a short kitchen wing extending to the north-east. It displays Tudor Gothic architectural details and rises to two storeys. The windows are mullioned and transomed, featuring ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms, along with straight cyma recta-moulded dripstones. Both the windows and doorways have ogee and concave quarter circle moulded surrounds. The cottage's position and design suggest that it may have originally served as a lodge for the predecessor of the Armitage Shanks factory, which is now situated to the north.

Local climate

1, Old Road receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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