Churchyard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1995. Cottage.
Churchyard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-fireplace-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1995
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Churchyard Cottage, Colwich
- OS grid reference
- SJ 998 227
- Coordinates
- 52.80238, -2.00423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Churchyard Cottage is a cottage from the early to mid 19th century, built of red brick with a clay plain tile roof featuring gabled ends and brick dentil eaves. It has brick axial and gable-end stacks. The layout consists of a two-room plan, with a parlour on the right and a kitchen on the left, heated by a central axial stack that forms an entrance lobby. There is a pantry and winder stairs located behind the kitchen.
The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window front facing southwest. It features 19th-century two-light wooden windows with iron casements and glazing bars. The doorway is centrally located and has a plank door with cover-moulds. The ground floor openings have cambered arches, with the left ground floor opening being blind. There is a similar casement window on the left end of the cottage. A later 19th-century outshut is present at the right end. The rear wall is mostly blind, except for a small pantry window on the ground floor.
Inside, the 19th-century joinery remains intact. The kitchen fireplace has a brick arch and an iron range. Churchyard Cottage forms a group with the nearby Church of St John the Baptist.
Local climate
Churchyard 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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