Abnalls Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1964. Cottage.
Abnalls Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-sandstone-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Abnalls Cottage, Abnalls Lane, Farewell and Chorley
- OS grid reference
- SK 097 101
- Coordinates
- 52.6891, -1.85714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abnalls Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was refaced in the late 18th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill, although the east front has been replaced with brickwork. The cottage has a tiled roof and a corniced brick ridge stack, along with an end stack on the right side. It stands two storeys high with a gable-lit attic and has a two-window front. The ground floor has widely spaced casement windows with segmental heads, and there is a central entrance featuring a 20th-century glazed door. To the right, there is a lower addition. The sides and rear of the cottage display square panel framing that is braced at the wall plate level to the truss divisions. Historically, the cottage was used by Erasmus Darwin as a recuperative retreat for his patients, particularly for the use of the restorative bath located to the south.
Local climate
Abnalls Cottage 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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