Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Water tower. 2 related planning applications.

Water Tower

WRENN ID
pale-sill-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
Water tower
Address
Water Tower, Chapel Lane, Aldford and Saighton, CH3 6EN
OS grid reference
SJ 442 619
Coordinates
53.15214, -2.83509
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The water tower, built around 1870, is constructed from squared snecked red sandstone. It features a three-stage machicolated design with battered angle buttresses. The round-headed doorway is topped with a hoodmould and flanked by a small bevelled rectangular window on each side. Above the first floor, there is a moulded string course, and on both the front and back of the tower, pairs of basket-arched windows with hoodmoulds and leaded glazing can be found. The second floor has paired loopholes on all sides.

Local climate

Water Tower 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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