Folly in Garden to South East of Broad Terraces is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1999. Folly.
Folly in Garden to South East of Broad Terraces
- WRENN ID
- salt-newel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1999
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Folly in Garden to South East of Broad Terraces, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 778
- Coordinates
- 53.29704, -2.36517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This folly, believed to have been an aviary, was built around 1906 by Richard Harding Watt. It features a rendered brick construction with a pantiled roof and is designed in the Edwardian Free style. The structure is circular in shape and open, supported by plain pilasters that hold up a conical roof topped with a lantern that mirrors the main structure's form. This folly is part of a notable group of buildings constructed along Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, which includes The Old Croft.
Local climate
Folly in Garden to South East of Broad Terraces 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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