14, Lower Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1970. Town house, restaurant. 1 related planning application.
14, Lower Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-chapel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1970
- Type
- Town house, restaurant
- Address
- 14, Lower Bridge Street, CH1 1RS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 405 660
- Coordinates
- 53.18811, -2.89097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
14 Lower Bridge Street is a one-bay town house that has been converted into a restaurant. It has medieval origins but was refronted and rebuilt from the former Row level upward, likely in the 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and rendered brick, topped with a grey slate roof that has a gable at the front. It stands four storeys tall, including an undercroft and the former Row level.
The shopfront features a modern small-pane part-glazed door on the south side and a single-pane window that may have an older surround with a simple plinth, pilasters, and fascia. There is a tripartite sash window with 4;12;4 panes on the second and third storeys, and a 2-light sash window that was formerly 4 panes on the fourth storey. The building has flush eaves and a lateral chimney on the south side.
Inside, the undercroft is accessed by four steps down and has its front bay surfaces covered, with a modern metal spiral staircase inserted. Towards the back, the medieval sidewalls made of coursed red sandstone rubble are exposed, and there are three oak cross-beams, two of which are chamfered. The second storey contains some old cross-beams that have likely been repositioned, while the surfaces in the third and fourth storeys are covered.
Local climate
14, Lower Bridge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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