Number 50 Row is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. Shop and offices. 1 related planning application.

Number 50 Row

WRENN ID
outer-lead-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1955
Type
Shop and offices
Address
Number 50 Row, Eastgate Street and Row
OS grid reference
SJ 406 663
Coordinates
53.19052, -2.88953
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 50 Row is a shop and offices located in Chester City, previously known as No.52 Row Eastgate Street. It was rebuilt between 1963 and 1965, featuring a replica facade of an early 18th-century building, but only facing Eastgate Street. The structure is made of brown brick in English garden wall bond and has a grey slate roof that is positioned at a right angle to the front. It has four storeys with a single bay, and the Row walk slopes down to street level at the east side of the building.

The base of the building features cream stone plinths that support end piers with Roman Doric responds, along with two intermediate columns. Above the Row opening, there is a plain stone-faced frieze and band. The upper storeys have rusticated quoins, and the windows are nearly flush 12-pane horned sashes with very small sills and gauged brick flat arches—three on the second storey and one each on the third and fourth storeys. There are moulded string courses at the third and fourth storey floors, and the building is topped with a shaped gable that has moulded stone coping and a pineapple finial. The interior was completely rebuilt during the 1963-1965 renovation by Sir Percy Thomas and Son as part of the Grosvenor-Laing precinct.

Local climate

Number 50 Row 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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