The Watergate is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. Archway. 4 related planning applications.
The Watergate
- WRENN ID
- plain-bailey-falcon
- Grade
- I
- 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
- Archway
- Address
- The Watergate, Watergate Street and Row, CH1 2LB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 401 661
- Coordinates
- 53.18938, -2.89737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watergate is an archway through the City Wall, located on the site of a medieval gate. It was built between 1788 and 1790 by Joseph Turner for Chester City Council, which had purchased the sergeantry of the gate from the Earl of Derby in 1778. The structure is made of red sandstone ashlar. The main feature is a basket arch, which is surrounded by a ring of short rusticated voussoirs. The wings of the arch are rusticated below simple, slightly projecting imposts. There are turned stone balusters on the parapets of the wall walk, which includes a central panel with a pediment, an intermediate panel on each side, and a parapet above each wing that is finished with a panelled abutment. To the south of the main arch, there is a postern with a brick barrel vault. Additionally, there is a drinking fountain, which is now dry, fixed to the north abutment and is dated 1857.
Local climate
The Watergate 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 — 4 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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