Pair of Cottages Approximately 50 Yards South West of the Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Cottage.
Pair of Cottages Approximately 50 Yards South West of the Old School
- WRENN ID
- narrow-pillar-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SK 068 443
- Coordinates
- 52.99605, -1.89997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of cottages, dating from the 18th century, is located approximately 50 yards south-west of The Old School in Farley. The cottages are constructed of ashlar stone with herringbone tooling and feature a plain tile roof adorned with shaped tile bands. They have an ashlar ridge stack and an integral end stack with square section shafts. The cottages are aligned north-east to south-west and face south-east. The cottage on the south-west side has a baffle-entry plan. They are one storey with an attic, and the left-hand cottage includes a basement. Each cottage has three bays with chamfered mullioned windows that contain iron casements; the ground floor windows have three lights while the attic windows have two lights. There are two gabled attic dormers, and the doors are located to the right and to the right of centre, with a basement door on the left.
Local climate
Pair of Cottages Approximately 50 Yards South West of the Old School receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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