Cottage at Junction with Denstone Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. House, cottage.

Cottage at Junction with Denstone Lane

WRENN ID
sunken-gable-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
House, cottage
Address
Cottage at Junction with Denstone Lane, Nabb Lane, Alton
OS grid reference
SK 074 417
Coordinates
52.97265, -1.89087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a house and a pair of attached cottages located at the junction with Denstone Lane in Alton. It dates from the early 18th century, with a late 18th-century addition and later alterations. The structure is made of ashlar stone with herringbone tooling and features a plain tile roof with coped verges. There is a massive ashlar external end stack and a brick integral end stack for the early 18th-century house, along with a brick ridge stack for the late 18th-century cottages.

Originally, the building was a single-cell, end baffle-entry plan house, aligned north-south and facing east, with a late 18th-century extension to the south and an outshut to the west. The early 18th-century house is to the right, while the late 18th-century cottages are to the left. The early 18th-century house has three storeys, a cyma recta moulded eaves band, and one bay with chamfered mullioned windows that contain casements. The ground and first-floor windows have three lights, while the second-floor window has two lights. There is a door to the left with a raised surround.

The late 18th-century cottages are two storeys high and feature three windows with 20th-century casements, along with doors on the left and right. On the west front, the early 18th-century house is on the left and the late 18th-century cottages are on the right. The early 18th-century house has a fire window next to the chimney stack and a small first-floor window to the left, both of which are casements. The late 18th-century cottages have one storey with three casement windows. Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters.

Local climate

Cottage at Junction with Denstone Lane 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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