Watch Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. House.

Watch Tower

WRENN ID
pale-bonework-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1967
Type
House
Address
Watch Tower, Church Lane, Gawsworth
OS grid reference
SJ 894 698
Coordinates
53.22528, -2.16023
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Watch Tower, originally known as the Pigeon House, is a building from the early 18th century that has undergone later additions and alterations. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick and features a stone slate roof. The building is three storeys high and has a square plan.

On the entrance front, there is a projecting plinth and chamfered quoins at the corners made of rubbed brick. A band runs between the ground and first floors, which slightly breaks forward over the central door. This door is surrounded by chamfered quoins and has a flat arched head made of gauged brick. To the left of the door, there is a 20th-century single-light window. The first floor has a central window with five by four sash panes, which likely originally had three casement lights, set in a moulded surround with ovolo-moulded sides and chamfered quoins. The second floor features a two-light casement window.

There are 20th-century single-storey additions on both the right and left sides of the building. On the right side, there is a 20th-century sun-porch on the ground floor and a single-light window to the left. A 20th-century plate glass window is located on the first floor to the right, while a 19th-century two-light casement window is positioned in the centre of the second floor.

At the rear, there is a central 19th-century four-paned sash window, with two two-light casement windows on the first floor. A blocked mezzanine window rises through the first and second floors, and there is a two-light window on the second floor to the right.

Local climate

Watch Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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