20, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Town house. 1 related planning application.
20, King Street
- WRENN ID
- cold-cornice-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 20, King Street, CH1 2AH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 403 665
- Coordinates
- 53.19307, -2.89426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a town house, likely dating from around 1830. The front is constructed of brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the grey slate roof runs parallel to the street. It is a three-story, double-fronted building. A rendered plinth incorporates a recessed bootscraper, and there are two steps leading to the front door, which is centrally located to the west. The door itself consists of five fielded panels with a radial bar fanlight set within a round-arched doorcase, featuring pilasters and an open pediment. There are four windows per storey, each with painted stone sills and wedge lintels featuring cambered soffits and false keystones made of three voussoirs. The recessed, horned sash windows have 12 panes on the first and second floors, and 6 panes on the third floor, with exposed sash boxes. An arched passage doorway to the east has a boarded door and a plain fanlight. The parapet features a decorative frieze and a modillion cornice. Gable chimneys are present.
The rear of the building, presented as two separate houses, is rendered and features replaced architectural details. The eastern section has a two-story outshut with a lean-to roof, plus a further extension including a second-story conservatory supported by braced posts. The third storey above the outshut has two recessed 12-pane sashes, a flush verge, and a west ridge chimney. The western section includes a six-panel door with a triangular overlight, a nearly flush 16-pane sash window to the first floor, an altered tall, thin stair window, a 12-pane recessed sash to the second floor, and a casement window with two 2-pane lights and an arched 2-pane fanlight above to the third floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
20, King Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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