24 and 26, Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Town house, nursing home. 6 related planning applications.
24 and 26, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- blind-spire-root
- 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 house, nursing home
- Address
- 24 and 26, Queen Street, CH1 3LG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 408 665
- Coordinates
- 53.19256, -2.88634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24 and 26 Queen Street are a pair of town houses, now functioning as a nursing home, built around 1770. They are constructed from Flemish bond brown brick and topped with a grey slate roof. The buildings have cellars and three storeys. Each house features a painted stone plinth with a cellar vent, and there are two doorways, each accessed by two stone steps. The left doorway has five fielded panels, while the right has six. Both doors have overlights and paired architraves, with the outer sides eared and panelled jambs and soffit on the right door. A continuous frieze and cornice run above the doorways.
The left house has a 16-pane flush sash window, and the right house has a 4;12;4-pane sash. On the first floor, each house has two flush 12-pane sashes, with the right house featuring a sill band. There is a continuous vertical joint between the two houses on both upper storeys. The left house has an unequal 12-pane flush sash on the second floor, while the right house has two flush 9-pane sashes. Both houses have painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with keystones. Each house has flush chimneys, one located before the ridge and one behind.
The left (north) gable is rendered and features a 20-pane unequal sash window near the rear of each storey. The rear includes a sash window with four rows of five panes on the ground floor and a 16-pane sash on each upper storey, with square panes on the second floor. The right side has a replaced 6-pane sash on the first floor and a 9-pane sash on the second floor. The rear of the building is built against. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
24 and 26, Queen 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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