Tower in Garden of Woodbank House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Tower.
Tower in Garden of Woodbank House
- WRENN ID
- grey-spindle-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower in Garden of Woodbank House, Light Alders Lane, Disley, SK12 2LW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 965 846
- Coordinates
- 53.35893, -2.05298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower in the garden of Woodbank House is a mid-19th century structure designed as a belvedere. It is built from purple-red bricks in English bond and English garden wall bond, with yellow painted sandstone dressings. The tower is square in plan and has four storeys, featuring a balcony that is set behind a low triangular pediment. Each floor has windows with three-light wooden casements that have bevelled stone heads. The balcony is adorned with iron railings that include some scroll work, and an iron weather-vane sits atop the stone-coped pediment. This tower occupies a very prominent position within the garden of Woodbank House.
Local climate
Tower in Garden of Woodbank House 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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