Manchester Ship Canal Magazine Building, Ince Banks is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 January 1989. Magazine building.
Manchester Ship Canal Magazine Building, Ince Banks
- WRENN ID
- cold-gargoyle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Magazine building
- OS grid reference
- SJ 474 778
- Coordinates
- 53.2951, -2.78942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manchester Ship Canal Magazine Building, located at Ince Banks, is a Grade II listed structure built for storing explosives, likely just before 1888. Constructed by the Manchester Ship Canal Company, it was strategically placed away from canal operations and populated areas for safety. Currently, it is used occasionally by wild-fowlers and bird watchers.
The building is made of red brick and features a slate roof. It is a single-storey structure raised on piers, divided into three bays by two bays, with the piers extending upwards as pilasters on the main elevation. These piers support semi-circular arches, and there are angle buttresses at the corner piers that also rise as pilasters. A deep projecting brick band below the eaves creates the appearance of large sunk brick panels.
On the south-east elevation, there is a central door opening beneath a segmental arch, with narrow slot window openings positioned high on the wall. The hipped roof is covered with blue clay tiles. The raised floor serves as a precaution against seasonal flooding and also helps to reduce the impact of blasts.
Local climate
Manchester Ship Canal Magazine Building, Ince Banks receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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