13, Drury Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1971. Tower house. 2 related planning applications.
13, Drury Lane
- WRENN ID
- iron-wicket-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1971
- Type
- Tower house
- Address
- 13, Drury Lane, Knutsford, WA16 6HA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 752 789
- Coordinates
- 53.30676, -2.37216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 13 Drury Lane is a tower house built around 1900 by architect Richard Harding Watt. The building features painted brickwork and a low pyramidal slate roof that overhangs on struts, showcasing a severe Germanic style. It stands four storeys tall with an open upper storey. The entrance is arched and located in the return elevation, while the upper storey has narrow paired windows, and the ground and first floors have single-light windows. There is a small two-storeyed cottage extension beyond the return elevation, which includes a full-height squared bay window. To the left, there is a high entrance arch in a wall with a hipped roof that also overhangs on struts, leading to a wide segmentally-arched entrance with wooden main and side gates adorned with Art Nouveau-style ironwork. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the tower was part of a complex that included a laundry and workers' cottages, established by Watt on the site of a former dye works and tannery. This building is part of a notable development in Free Style commissioned by Richard Harding Watt.
Local climate
13, Drury Lane sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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