Generator house at Barlowfold is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Generator house.
Generator house at Barlowfold
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-wicket-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Generator house
- Address
- Generator house at Barlowfold, London Road North, Poynton with Worth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 920 849
- Coordinates
- 53.36135, -2.12103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The generator house at Barlowfold, built around 1880, was likely constructed for W A Turner. It features pre-cast concrete sections and is a single-storey building with a symmetrical, two-bay south front. The front has nine-pane iron casement windows. Inside, a steel pipe carries water from the former mill leat through a turbine electric generator made by W Gunther of Oldham, and the water exits beneath the house. The switchgear for both alternating current and direct current generation is located against the south wall. W A Turner was an early pioneer in using electric light in cotton mills and served as an active director of the Edison Electric Light Company. This generator supplied electricity to Barlowfold, the house he occupied in 1881.
Local climate
Generator house at Barlowfold 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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