Northern Range of Service Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Service building, water tower.
Northern Range of Service Buildings
- WRENN ID
- waning-truss-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Service building, water tower
- Address
- Northern Range of Service Buildings, Dodcott Cum Wilkesley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 587 441
- Coordinates
- 52.99268, -2.61566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The northern range of service buildings at Combermere Park dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of red brick with a slate roof. It is two storeys high and features a court facade with nine bays. The ground floor has cambered headed three-light windows and stable doorways, while the first floor contains two and three-light casement windows.
On the right side of the building, there is a recessed central section that includes a blind window with Y-tracery on the ground floor, above which are five small lancet windows with a Tudor hood mould and cross-shaped arrow slits on either side. A cyma-moulded stringcourse runs above this section, topped by a battlemented parapet.
Flanking this central portion are single-storey wings that project slightly. The right wing has a doorway on the left and a cross-shaped arrow slit on the right, along with a buttress with offsets at the left corner and an octagonal turret at the right corner. The left wing features a central window with a Tudor hood mould and a battlemented parapet.
At the rear of the range, which faces the entrance court of the abbey, there is a single-storey wall divided into ten bays by buttresses with offsets at the top. This wall has two cross-shaped arrow slits at either end and a battlemented parapet along the top. An octagonal turret is located at the left corner, and a water tower rises to a second storey in the second bay from the right, both towers featuring battlemented parapets.
This building is noted for its group value.
Local climate
Northern Range of Service Buildings receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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