Tilstone Hall Folly is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Gatehouse.
Tilstone Hall Folly
- WRENN ID
- sombre-bastion-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1986
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Tilstone Hall Folly, Tilstone Hall Lane, Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 572 608
- Coordinates
- 53.14283, -2.64039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tilstone Hall Folly is a late 16th to early 17th century gatehouse ruin located on Tilstone Hall Lane in Tilstone Fearnall. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features English garden wall bond brickwork. The ruin consists of a deteriorated ground floor and part of the first floor.
On the west front, there is a central round pedestrian archway with moulded springers and ovolo moulding on the arch voussoirs. Plinths and capitals of missing columns flank the arch. To the left, there is a blocked 3-light mullioned window with a chamfered surround and a pediment above it, with remnants of a similar window on the right. An entablature projects above the capitals and at the corners, with a further pediment resting on the cornice to the left.
The east front mirrors the west face but features two sets of two pediments and one cabled Roman Doric column. The proportions and use of cabled Roman Doric columns make the building somewhat similar to the screen at Speke Hall in Lancashire.
Local climate
Tilstone Hall Folly receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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