Shelter (At Junction with Paddock Road - Forming Island in Road) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Shelter.

Shelter (At Junction with Paddock Road - Forming Island in Road)

WRENN ID
heavy-pillar-indigo
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
Shelter
Address
Shelter (At Junction with Paddock Road - Forming Island in Road), Church Road, Eaton and Eccleston
OS grid reference
SJ 412 625
Coordinates
53.15654, -2.88032
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This shelter, built in 1874 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster, is located at the junction of Church Road and Paddock Road, forming an island in the road at the village center. Originally serving as a well house, it has an octagonal shape and is oak framed, featuring heavy turned oak balusters set on a tall battered plinth made of red sandstone. The roof is a truncated octagonal pyramid that supports a louvred ventilator beneath a spirelet, which is topped with a lead-covered finial that carries a gilded fish. There is a band of shaped openwork oak beneath the swept eaves.

Local climate

Shelter (At Junction with Paddock Road - Forming Island in Road) 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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