Number 21 and 23 Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. Shop, cafe. 2 related planning applications.
Number 21 and 23 Street
- WRENN ID
- tired-transept-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1955
- Type
- Shop, cafe
- Address
- Number 21 and 23 Street, Northgate Street and Row, CH1 2HA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 405 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19112, -2.89183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 21 and 23 Street is a shop that was formerly used as living accommodation, now functioning as a shop and café. It is situated on the site of one or two medieval tenements and was built in 1897 by H. Beswick for Charles Brown. The building has no medieval undercrofts, but the cellars contain Roman items. The exterior is made of sandstone and timber-frame with plaster panels, topped with a clay tile roof.
The building has a cellar and three storeys, though it has been converted to two storeys. The Row is elevated two steps above the pavement and features an arcade with narrow cusped archways on either side of a broader central opening. The red sandstone end-piers and two stop-chamfered intermediate posts rest on sandstone plinths and are adorned with carved jetty-brackets. The central opening is supported by cusped brackets in the bressumer.
On the second storey, there is continuous mullioned and transomed leaded glazing, with a four-light canted oriel on brackets above each side-arch and paired three-light casements above the central opening. The third storey is jettied and supported by five principal posts with spiral colonnettes, featuring carved brackets and an ornate skirt at the base of the front gable. Four pargeted panels inscribed "18:C:B:97" are located beneath a six-light mullioned casement, which has three curved struts on each side. The gable displays ornate panels above the casement, shaped bargeboards on paired brackets, a carved finial, and cast-iron rainwater heads.
The rear of the building is constructed of brick and lacks features of special interest. The cellar of No. 21 contains a Roman pit, while No. 23 has remains from a Roman principia. The upper storeys do not have any visible features of interest. Nos. 5-31 (odd) are collectively known as "Saddler's Row" and were previously listed as Row numbers.
Local climate
Number 21 and 23 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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