White Nancy is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1966. Folly/summerhouse.
White Nancy
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-solder-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1966
- Type
- Folly/summerhouse
- Address
- White Nancy, Rainow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 939 771
- Coordinates
- 53.29096, -2.09238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Nancy is a folly or summerhouse built in 1817 for John Gaskell junior of North End Farm. It is constructed from white-washed and rendered sandstone rubble and has a circular plan with a distinctive sugar loaf shape, topped with a ball finial at the apex. The interior features a now blocked entrance that led into a single room, which includes stone benches around the edge and a circular stone table in the middle. This structure was erected to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, and part of it is located in Rainow parish.
Local climate
White Nancy 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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