Numbers 1and 2 Balcony House and Attached Railings to Front Steps the Old Assembly Room is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. House.

Numbers 1and 2 Balcony House and Attached Railings to Front Steps the Old Assembly Room

WRENN ID
riven-lead-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1974
Type
House
Address
Numbers 1and 2 Balcony House and Attached Railings to Front Steps the Old Assembly Room, Holywell Close, Neston
OS grid reference
SJ 279 780
Coordinates
53.29454, -3.08225
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 2 Balcony House, along with the attached railings to the front steps, are located in Parkgate Village, Neston. This building, originally a house that later became assembly rooms, is now divided into three houses. It dates from the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries, and features a balcony added in 1865. The exterior is finished with incised render on brick and includes a cast-iron balcony. The slate roof has brick coped gables and rendered stacks.

The building stands three storeys high with a basement and has a five-window front. Access is provided by two flights of nine steps each, leading to early 20th-century front doors that have tall overlights. The steps are adorned with balustrades made of openwork panels and flat handrails. The windows on all floors are recessed sashes with single glazing bars, slightly segmental heads, and painted stone sills, with the second-floor windows featuring an extended raised sillband.

The first-floor windows are complemented by an elaborate balcony that has an openwork balustrade, supported at the front by slender shafts with traceried spandrels. The returns of the balcony extend to the left and right, resting on traceried brackets.

To the left, there is a three-storey, one-window gable end with a three-storey, one-window wing to the left, and further left is a two-storey, three-window wing. The windows on the three-storey sections mirror those on the main front, while the two-storey wing features sashes with exposed weight boxes and glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Numbers 1and 2 Balcony House and Attached Railings to Front Steps the Old Assembly Room sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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