Sandstone Chimney to Former Copper Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1977. Chimney.
Sandstone Chimney to Former Copper Mine
- WRENN ID
- tangled-terrace-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1977
- Type
- Chimney
- Address
- Sandstone Chimney to Former Copper Mine, Sandy Lane, Bickerton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 517 542
- Coordinates
- 53.08317, -2.72222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sandstone chimney to a former copper mine is an early 19th-century structure located in Bickerton. It is made of red hammer-dressed sandstone with neatly coursed masonry and has a square plan. The chimney is built in two stages: the lower stage is vertical and ends with a projecting weathered string course, while the upper section tapers and finishes with a slightly projecting narrow band and heavy terminal cresting. This chimney is the only remnant of the building that housed the pumping engine used to drain the copper mine, which was owned by the Egerton family of Oulton. The mine is reported to have been operational as early as 1697, according to Edmund Spargo's 1906 report, "The Cheshire Copper Mines, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire."
Local climate
Sandstone Chimney to Former Copper Mine receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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