1-7, Union Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1998. A Early 19th century Alley houses. 1 related planning application.
1-7, Union Place
- WRENN ID
- frozen-ashlar-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1998
- Type
- Alley houses
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- 1-7, Union Place, CH1 2DB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 404 660
- Coordinates
- 53.18792, -2.89229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A group of four alley houses, likely built in the 1830s, now used as a restaurant and offices. The front of the buildings are constructed of brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with English garden wall bond to the ends. The roof is hipped and covered in grey slate.
The houses are three storeys high, each originally one bay wide. They have a painted sandstone plinth and a single step of sandstone leading to each door. The doorcases include simple pilasters, friezes and cornices, with six-panel doors at numbers 1, 5, and 7. Number 3 has a replaced six-panel door. The windows are recessed sash windows with painted stone sills. The lower two floors have wedge lintels with cambered soffits over the windows, holding 16 panes of glass each. The third-floor windows have shorter sashes with 12 panes. Cast-iron rainwater pipes and heads are present, alongside a plain sandstone eaves coping and two ridge chimneys.
These houses represent a rare survival of alley housing, which has been converted without substantial external alteration. The interiors have been altered. Numbers 1-7 Union Place, along with numbers 1, 3, and 5 Cuppin Street, were part of a single development.
Local climate
1-7, Union Place 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.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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