The Steppes is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1988. Cottage.
The Steppes
- WRENN ID
- rooted-keystone-willow
- 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
- The Steppes, Main Road, Betley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 754 486
- Coordinates
- 53.03416, -2.36816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Steppes is a cottage located on Main Road in Betley, dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed, with some sections replaced by painted brick, and features a plain tile roof with a brick ridge stack. It has a two-cell layout and stands one storey high with an attic. The original timber wall plate can still be seen above the later brick front. The cottage has two windows on the front, featuring casements with segmental heads on the ground floor and gabled dormers in the attic. There is a central door with a segmental head. Inside, there is an exposed collar and tie beam roof truss on the right gable, supported by vertical struts below the collar and V-struts above. The left gable has a similar roof truss and exposed wall framing with three tiers of square panels. The interior also features a chamfered and stopped ceiling.
Local climate
The Steppes 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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