Numbers 18 and 20 Street Chester House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. Gas showroom. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 18 and 20 Street Chester House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-paling-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gas showroom
- Address
- Numbers 18 and 20 Street Chester House, Northgate Street and Row, CH1 2HA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 405 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19094, -2.89135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 18 and 20 Street, Chester House, was built in 1936 as a gas showroom on the site of a medieval undercroft and town house. The building, probably steel-framed but designed to appear as a timber frame with plaster panels, has a purple slate roof with a gable facing the street. It is three storeys high plus an attic.
The modern shopfront is recessed, featuring large timber stanchions within timber cases set on stone-clad, battered plinths. Features include arched braces to a bressumer with a barleysugar arris-mould, and rectangular small-framing to the upper storeys and attic gable. A square, eight-light mullioned and transomed oriel window with leaded glass is located on the second storey, featuring carved detailing at its base and top, supported by seven shaped brackets, and projecting a jetty to the third storey via consoles. A carved bressumer reads "CHESTER HOUSE". Above six slightly coved panels is a six-light leaded casement that projects beyond the wall. A tie-beam is inscribed "REBUILT 1936 A.D.". The attic has a two-light leaded casement, plain bargeboards and an oak finial. All windows are fitted with metal sub-frames.
Local climate
Numbers 18 and 20 Street Chester House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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