13 and 14, Abbey Square 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.
13 and 14, Abbey Square
- WRENN ID
- night-shingle-elder
- 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 405 665
- Coordinates
- 53.19241, -2.89119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 13 and 14 Abbey Square are a pair of cottages built in 1626 for Bishop John Bridgeman to serve as homes for vicars choral. They are constructed from red coursed rubble sandstone and brown brick, topped with a grey slate roof. The cottages are two storeys high with attics, featuring a front gable and a central doorway for each. No. 13 has an added gabled porch and replaced doors. Each cottage has a three-light casement window on either side of the door; No. 13's windows have small panes, while No. 14's have altered glazing. There are two windows on the second storey of each cottage and one window in the attic of each front gable. The main roof runs parallel to the front and connects at the rear of the gables. Each cottage has a four-flue brick chimney at the ridge junction. The interior could not be inspected.
Local climate
13 and 14, Abbey Square 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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