Water Tower C20 Metres West of Bostock Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1981. Water tower.
Water Tower C20 Metres West of Bostock Hall
- WRENN ID
- roaming-slate-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1981
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower C20 Metres West of Bostock Hall, CW10 9JN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 675 683
- Coordinates
- 53.21079, -2.4868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, located approximately 20 metres west of Bostock Hall, was built around 1850 and later modified around 1875. It is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick, with Ruabon brick used for the upper body, and features stone dressings along with a roof made of shingles and lead. The tower is square and consists of three stages.
The courtyard facade shows the lower stage, which is made of plain brick from around 1850, and includes a cambered-headed doorway. This doorway was originally accessed by an external staircase that has since been blocked. Above this, there is a cyma-moulded stone string course. The second stage is made of Ruabon brick and has an offset, with two recessed rectangular panels. Another cyma-moulded string course separates this from the third stage, which features six panels of blind cusped tracery.
The third stage includes bartizans with moulded stone and brick bases topped with lead spires. Above this, there is a row of twelve cusped panels and three pairs of lights. At the very top, the tower is capped with a splay-footed octagonal spire that has a short ridge.
Local climate
Water Tower C20 Metres West of Bostock Hall receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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