The Vale Royal Abbey Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. A C19 Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Vale Royal Abbey Arms
- WRENN ID
- south-plinth-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Vale Royal Abbey Arms, Chester Road, Delamere and Oakmere
- OS grid reference
- SJ 563 686
- Coordinates
- 53.21295, -2.65511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vale Royal Abbey Arms is a public house built in 1818, with later 19th-century extensions. It is constructed from tooled ashlar red sandstone and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with three stone chimneys. The building has a symmetrical five-bay front that is two and three stories high. The end bays are lower additions with flat roofs and 16-pane sash windows. The second and fourth bays contain two-light wooden casements with glazing bars, set under flat wedged lintels. The central bay features a gabled porch with a semi-circular arched entrance, which has moulded imposts and a studded door behind. Above the entrance, there is a boldly moulded depiction of the Vale Royal Abbey arms, framed with the building's name carved in gothic script on the sill. There is a casement window above the porch. The rear of the building has some extensions. Inside, there are no original features on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Vale Royal Abbey Arms 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 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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