32 and 34, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Town house. 1 related planning application.
32 and 34, King Street
- WRENN ID
- tattered-quartz-primrose
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 32 and 34, King Street, CH1 2AH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 402 665
- Coordinates
- 53.19306, -2.89504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
32 and 34 King Street are a pair of town houses dating from the early to mid 18th century, with their fronts refurbished around 1840. The houses feature brown brick in Flemish bond on the front, while No.34 has been rendered in the 20th century. No.32 has a grey slate roof, and No.34 has a red clay tile roof.
The exterior includes a sandstone plinth with a moulded cap. The entrance to No.32 is located at the east end and features a door with six fielded panels, framed by plain pilasters and a Doric pediment. The entrance to No.34 is at the west end, with a door of four fielded panels set in a case with pilasters and an entablature. Both houses have recessed sash windows with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with keystones. Each house has four 16-pane sashes on the first and second storeys and two pairs of 12-pane sashes on the third storey, topped with a cornice. The rear of the houses has two gables and a flat-roofed one-storey extension added to both. Each house also features a 12-pane flush horned sash on the first and second storeys, an inserted door from the second storey to the flat roof, and a pair of 12-pane sashes on the third storey.
Inside, No.32 has a brick barrel vault in the rear part of its 18th-century cellars, with sandstone rubble walling below the springing of the vault and stone steps. The first storey front room has a door with four fielded panels, but other features have been stripped away. The back room includes a door of four fielded panels and an inglenook with a reused or altered oak bressumer on a sandstone pad at the rear end. The softwood stair has a narrow well, open string with shaped brackets, turned newels, three plinthed turned balusters per step, a swept rail, and a panelled swept dado with panelled pilasters. On the second storey, there are two doors with six margined panels in cases with broad moulded architraves. The stair to the third storey is detailed similarly to the lower stair, and the third storey has three doors with two fielded panels. The interior of No.34 could not be inspected.
Local climate
32 and 34, King Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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