Former nurse's accommodation and dispensary is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Cottage, dispensary.

Former nurse's accommodation and dispensary

WRENN ID
old-footing-juniper
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
Cottage, dispensary
Address
Former nurse's accommodation and dispensary, Brookview and Stocks View, Chester Road, Alford, Aldford and Saighton, CH3 6HJ
OS grid reference
SJ 421 593
Coordinates
53.12837, -2.86584
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a former nurse's accommodation and dispensary, constructed in 1893 by Douglas and Fordham for the First Duke of Westminster. It consists of a handed pair of cottages and an attached dispensary. The structure is made of red brick with blue diapering on the dormer gables and the bases of the end gables, while the heads of the end gables are white rendered. The roof is covered with small grey-green slates, and there is a central chimney for the cottages with diagonal flues rising from the roof, as well as a tall plinthed chimney for the dispensary with two attached diagonal flues.

The front features two separated projecting dormer gables, flanked by front doors on the left and right. The cottages are one and a half storeys high with one window each, while the single-storey dispensary has two windows on the left. The cottages have iron casements (with leaded glazing removed) in mullioned windows made of moulded brick, featuring three camber-arched lights. The doors consist of two square panels of leaded glazing above three tall wooden panels. The dispensary, which includes an office, has two timber mullioned windows with arched top lights containing small panes.

This building serves as a terminal feature at the north end of the village and reflects the significant role the First Duke played in establishing the system of district nurses in Britain.

Local climate

Former nurse's accommodation and dispensary receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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