70, 70a, 72 and 74, Lower Bridge 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 Georgian Town houses, shops, offices.

70, 70a, 72 and 74, Lower Bridge Street

WRENN ID
sombre-chancel-birch
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 houses, shops, offices
Period
Georgian
Address
70, 70a, 72 and 74, Lower Bridge Street, CH1 1RU
OS grid reference
SJ 406 658
Coordinates
53.18684, -2.89015
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

70, 70A, 72 and 74 Lower Bridge Street are two undercrofts and townhouses, now functioning as two shops and offices. They were likely built in the late 18th century and feature Flemish bond brown brick with a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front. The building has four storeys and three windows. The staircases leading to the recessed porch of No. 70A, located north of No. 70, and to No. 72, south of No. 74, indicate an 18th-century enclosure of the former Row, similar to properties on the north side of Watergate Street.

The first storey includes 12 repaired stone steps leading to a recessed porch, a shopfront with four untapered fluted pilasters, a stone plinth, a shop window with one lower pane, a transom, and two upper panes, along with a four-panel half-glazed door. The southern shop has a front that has been rebuilt in brick and features a flight of 13 stone steps in a round-arched recessed porch. The second and third storeys each have three recessed 12-pane sash windows, while the fourth storey has three 6-pane square sash windows. There is a sill band at the second storey, wedge lintels, painted stone sills on the third and fourth storeys, a cornice, a lead-clad parapet, and a central ridge chimney. The interiors have surfaces that are covered, and there are likely original dogleg stairs with steps covered and balusters boxed. The rear of the building has not been inspected.

Local climate

70, 70a, 72 and 74, 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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