Walnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1988. A Late C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Walnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-plaster-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Newcastle-under-Lyme MP: Adam Jogee (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Cottage, Main Road, Betley, CW3 9AB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 753 488
- Coordinates
- 53.03598, -2.36865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on the east side of Main Road in Betley. It is timber-framed with brick infill panels, and some brick replacement, topped by a tile roof. A brick stack is integrated into one end. The cottage is single-cell, aligned north-south and facing south. It has a single storey with a gable-lit attic, featuring three tiers of square panels to the eaves level, with straight braces and long straight tension braces. The south front has a central door flanked by a pair of two-light casement windows. Above the door is a three-light attic casement. The roof has a collar and tie beam truss with V-struts above the collar and vertical struts below.
Local climate
Walnut Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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