117, Foregate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Shop, accommodation. 3 related planning applications.
117, Foregate Street
- WRENN ID
- salt-gallery-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Shop, accommodation
- Address
- 117, Foregate Street, CH1 1HE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 410 664
- Coordinates
- 53.1919, -2.88379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 117 Foregate Street is a shop and accommodation building constructed in 1889 by John Douglas for the first Duke of Westminster. It was converted and attached to new offices in 1990 by Stananought. The building is made of Ruabon red brick with stone dressings and features blue brick diapering, topped with a red clay tile roof. It is designed to complement No. 113 Foregate Street, appearing as a lodge to Parker's Buildings.
The ground floor front was refaced in 1990, while the upper storeys have flush sandstone bands. There are stone shafts on either side of the central windows. The first floor features a three-light mullioned and transomed casement window, flanked by a one-light transomed casement on each side. The second floor has a three-light casement window. The building has a shaped front gable with a moulded cornice and a finial.
On the left side, facing the forecourt of No. 115 Parker's Buildings, there are sandstone quoins, stone-mullioned and transomed windows, two projecting shaped gables, and two chimneys with detached circular spiral-moulded flues made of shaped Ruabon bricks. Near the rear corner, there is a nine-panel door with strap hinges, dated 1889. The rear gable features a projecting chimney. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
117, Foregate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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