Chestnut Cottages and Estate Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. House, workshop.
Chestnut Cottages and Estate Workshops
- WRENN ID
- woven-bonework-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- House, workshop
- Address
- Chestnut Cottages and Estate Workshops, 1, 2, 3 and 4, Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 962 825
- Coordinates
- 53.34011, -2.05832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottages and estate workshops are estate workers' houses and workshops, which now include a cafeteria. They were built in 1904 by C. H. Reilly of Liverpool for the 2nd Lord Newton. The buildings are constructed of washed, pebble-dashed red brick with a red tile roof and feature eight plastered chimneys. They are designed in a Vernacular Revival style and have an L-shaped plan.
The east range consists of one and two-storey sections with a symmetrical 13-bay front arranged as (a, b, a, c, a, b, a). The end bays project as two-storey sections under half-hipped, mansard roofs, featuring 5-light casements with glazing bars below and 3-light casements above. The central door is flanked by similar elements and has a dormer and mansard roof above. The body of this range is one storey high with a steeply pitched roof and 3-light casements.
The north range has three units that step down the hill. To the left is a three-bay house in a mansard-roofed end pavilion, complete with 3-light dormers. Next is a five-bay former electricity generating shed, which has 3-light wooden casements with glazing bars (the center light is dropped) and single-light dormers under hipped gables in the pitched roof. To the right is a four-bay former boiler house and laundry, featuring buttresses between the bays and similar dormers in the pitched roof. Connecting to the boiler house is a flue that leads to an English bond, red-brick square chimney topped with a blind, square sandstone arcade on brackets, just below a moulded cornice.
Local climate
Chestnut Cottages and Estate Workshops sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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