Chowley Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1984. Lodge.
Chowley Lodge
- WRENN ID
- haunted-truss-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Chowley Lodge, Whitchurch Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 481 562
- Coordinates
- 53.10054, -2.77656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chowley Lodge is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1868 as the lodge for Bolesworth Castle. It is designed in a Decorated style, likely by Alfred Waterhouse, and is built from yellow sandstone with a roof made of banded shaped slates. The lodge features an ornate castellated entrance that includes a pair of wrought iron gates set beneath an oak-ceiled archway, which is adorned with armorial bearings.
The lodge-keeper's room has a shoulder-arched doorway flanked by mullioned windows with two lights. This room connects the gateway to a two-storey cottage that has an irregular shape, corbelled corners, a parapet, and steep hipped roofs. The inner side of the roof features a shaped dormer gable, and there is a shaped stone chimney topped with brick.
To the right of the cottage, there is a single-storey wing that ends in a wing wall with shaped coping. This wing wall has a blocked rear-access doorway and a quadrant outer portion that includes a terminal pier capped with a pyramid and ball. The wing wall to the left of the gateway is partially collapsed. The main window of each storey of the cottage, which originally had three trefoil lights, has been replaced with a standard metal casement.
Local climate
Chowley Lodge receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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