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

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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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