Greenside Cottage and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. Cottage.
Greenside Cottage and Railings
- WRENN ID
- late-sandstone-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Greenside Cottage and Railings, the Rakes, Alstonefield, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 129 557
- Coordinates
- 53.09925, -1.80799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenside Cottage is a cottage built in the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a clay tile roof with coped verges. The cottage features a coursed and squared rubble integral end stack. It is a single cell structure with a gable end entry, standing two storeys tall with a gable-lit attic. There is one window with 16-pane glazing bar sashes. Surrounding the ground floor window are cast iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads, and there is a door located on the southeast gable.
Local climate
Greenside Cottage and Railings 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.
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