British Waterways Board Area Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Office. 3 related planning applications.
British Waterways Board Area Office
- WRENN ID
- burning-ashlar-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Office
- Address
- British Waterways Board Area Office, Navigation Road, Northwich, CW8 1BH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 655 735
- Coordinates
- 53.2579, -2.51725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The British Waterways Board Area Office, originally the Weaver Navigation Office, was built in 1826. It is constructed of brown brick and features a hipped roof made of graded grey slate. The building has two storeys with three windows on the main facade and a right wing that contains two additional windows. The exterior includes a stone plinth, a first-floor cill band, and a moulded cornice.
The entrance features oak three-panel double doors set in a gauged brick round-arched recess, flanked by engaged Tuscan columns that support a wooden cornice beneath a radial-bar fan with three concentric bars. The windows are recessed 12-pane sashes with gauged brick heads, and there is a blocked round-arched doorway in the right wing. The lower storey has been extended at the rear, with 12-pane recessed sashes in the main block above.
Inside, there are Tuscan columns on either side of the entrance, and folding shutters in the embrasures. The open-string dogleg staircase has shaped brackets, stick balusters, and a curtail. There are three six-panel doors off the landing, with the door opposite the stair set in a panelled case featuring ornate moulded architraves.
Local climate
British Waterways Board Area Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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