Valve House in Reservoir Dam is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Industrial. 1 related planning application.
Valve House in Reservoir Dam
- WRENN ID
- deep-string-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Valve House in Reservoir Dam, Bosley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 924 653
- Coordinates
- 53.18547, -2.11399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Valve House in the Reservoir Dam, built around 1830 by engineer William Crosley, is constructed of buff gritstone and features tunnel-vaulted cyclopean stonework. It has a semi-circular entrance and a 20th-century barred wooden gate. There are stone wing walls leading to the sluiceway. This valve controls the outflow from the reservoir, which was created to supply water to the Macclesfield Canal, opened in 1831, as noted on the Bryant Map of Cheshire published in the same year.
Local climate
Valve House in Reservoir Dam 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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