The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-truss-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Park Lane, Ipstones, ST10 2ND
- OS grid reference
- SK 026 501
- Coordinates
- 53.04902, -1.96184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed dressed and squared stone of ashlar quality, featuring a raised band at the first-floor cill level and rusticated quoins. The roof is tiled with a moulded eaves band and has ashlar end stacks. The building is two stories high with a symmetrical three-window front. The windows are glazing bar sashes set in a raised surround, with implied voussoirs above. The central entrance has a part-glazed 20th-century door.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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