Charles Cotton's Fishing House is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. A C17 Fishing house.
Charles Cotton's Fishing House
- WRENN ID
- iron-attic-umber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Fishing house
- Address
- Charles Cotton's Fishing House, Beresford Lane, Alstonefield, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 127 592
- Coordinates
- 53.13003, -1.81105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charles Cotton's Fishing House is a 17th-century building, dated "PISCATORIBUS / SACRVM / 1674". It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped by a pyramidal stone slate roof. The structure has a single cell square plan and is designed in an Artisan Mannerist style, standing at one storey high. It features transomed windows with latticed lights and wooden shutters on either side. A flight of steps leads up to central double-leaved doors, which are flanked by pilasters with a round head and a raised keystone. The keystone is inscribed with the intertwined initials "I.W." and "C.C.", representing Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. This fishing house was built for Charles Cotton, the owner of Beresford Hall and a friend of Izaak Walton.
Local climate
Charles Cotton's Fishing House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings