29, 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. A C17 Cottage.

29, King Street

WRENN ID
grey-spindle-crag
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
Cottage
OS grid reference
SJ 403 665
Coordinates
53.19292, -2.89499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

29 King Street is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone alterations. The building features lined render on the first storey, mock timber framing on the second and third storeys, and a brown brick west gable that has been partly rebuilt, with a painted brick rear. It stands three storeys tall and has a replaced recessed door, a recessed 9-pane sash window on the first and second storeys, and a small 12-pane horizontally-sliding sash window on the third storey. There is a raised shield of uncertain significance dated 1773, flush eaves, and a parapet gable. An added one-storey gabled rear wing is present. The rear of the main building includes a 2-pane casement window under a basket relieving arch on the second storey and a mullioned 2-light casement window on the third storey, along with a west chimney.

Inside, the front room has an open fire with an oak beam, while the back room features a blocked corner fire. The rear wing does not have notable features. The staircase includes a 2-storey oak newel with a butted joint, and all the steps are winders. A central oak beam runs from front to back on the first storey and is chamfered on the second storey. There is a cupboard with an oak door facing the stair of the chimney breast. The third storey has two oak purlins on each slope, with one purlin being reused timber and the other scarfed to an oak bracket in the east wall, along with some flat oak rafters. The floorboards, which are now carpeted, are said to be broad and made of oak.

Local climate

29, 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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