15 and 15a, Lower Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Shop, town house. 2 related planning applications.

15 and 15a, Lower Bridge Street

WRENN ID
gentle-buttress-sparrow
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
Shop, town house
Address
15 and 15a, Lower Bridge Street, CH1 1NG
OS grid reference
SJ 405 660
Coordinates
53.18815, -2.89049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 15 and 15A on Lower Bridge Street is a shop and town house with medieval origins that has been altered in the 18th century and later. The building has a rendered front on brick and a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front. It stands three storeys tall and features a replaced shopfront made of wood and glass, which includes a central door. There is a tall recessed porch on the south side with 11 steps leading to the former Row, topped with a round-arched head.

The second storey has a sill band and two replaced horned sash windows, while the third storey also has a sill band and two replaced four-pane sash windows. A moulded cornice runs beneath the parapet, which has a round-headed central panel with a blank shield, flanked by a balustrade with recessed end panels. Additionally, there is a cast-iron pipe and an old rainwater head.

Inside, the front part of the shop is likely situated in an undercroft that dates back to the later medieval period, with a section behind that features an 18th-century brick barrel vault. The upper storeys do not have any visible features of special interest.

Local climate

15 and 15a, Lower Bridge 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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