The Spinney is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Town house.
The Spinney
- WRENN ID
- ruined-rood-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- The Spinney, 13, Bath Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 411 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19131, -2.88273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spinney is a small town house built in 1903 by the architect John Douglas. It features hard red brick with sections of grey polygonal random rubble stonework and is topped with a Westmorland green slate roof. The building has two storeys and a square plan, with a left wing connected by a yard archway to No. 11 Bath Street.
The front of the house includes leaded glazing in the upper panels of a 9-panel door set in a flat-arched terracotta opening, which is dated 1903 and located at the inner end of the left wing. The main block has a round turret on the left and an octagonal quasi-turret on the right. The turret contains a 2-light brick-mullioned leaded stair casement, while the main wall has a small 1-light casement and a part-leaded 1-light casement on the front and right oblique face of the quasi-turret.
The first floor jetties out on terracotta corbels, with the left wing featuring a 1-light leaded casement in a corbelled gabled dormer that has a stone apex panel. There is also a leaded light above the doorway and leaded casements of 2 and 1 light in the turret. The main wall has a corbelled shaped chimney on each side, and the quasi-turret has a leaded light at the front and a 2-light leaded casement on the oblique face.
The roofs are hipped, with the turret sporting a steep conical roof that has a hipped lead lucarne and a finial, while the quasi-turret features an octagonal spire with a lead finial. The right side of the building has a 3-light mullioned casement and two 2-light casements on the ground floor. The first floor is stone-panelled and includes casements of 2, 3, 1, 2, and 2 lights, with a gable featuring lozenge-shaped plaster panels towards the rear. A shaped chimney is located at the back of the house. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Spinney receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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