The Waverton Men's Institute and Attached Caretaker's House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1985. Institute, house. 3 related planning applications.
The Waverton Men's Institute and Attached Caretaker's House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-crypt-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1985
- Type
- Institute, house
- Address
- The Waverton Men's Institute and Attached Caretaker's House, the Village, CH3 7QN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 461 634
- Coordinates
- 53.16563, -2.80625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Waverton Men's Institute and attached caretaker's house, built around 1890 in the style of John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster, features English bond orange Ruabon brick with blue brick diapering and buff sandstone dressings. The building has a Welsh slate roof with a red tile ridge and a ridge brick chimney topped with four twisted Tudor-style stacks. It is a one and two-storey structure with a five-bay front. The left three bays form the one-storey institute, which is divided by buttresses and has three-light mullioned and transomed windows with leaded coloured glazing. Above the ridge, there is a tall octagonal spired, shingled louvre, complete with lucarnes and a ball finial. The fourth bay projects slightly under a gable and features a heavy corbel table at the first floor, with three-light windows on each floor and in the right end bay. The building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
The Waverton Men's Institute and Attached Caretaker's House 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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- 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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