The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-chamber-tide
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Alstonefield, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 131 555
- Coordinates
- 53.09713, -1.80541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in Alstonefield. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a clay tile roof with raised, coped verges on kneelers. The building has a single cell layout, standing two storeys tall with a gable-lit attic. It has one window, which is mullioned and includes a straight dripstone and flat faced mullions. To the right of the window, there is a nail-studded door that is topped with a bracketed hood.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
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