12 and 13, The Groves 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.
12 and 13, The Groves
- WRENN ID
- swift-brick-heath
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SJ 410 660
- Coordinates
- 53.1885, -2.88383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
12 and 13 The Groves is a pair of town houses designed to appear as one, built around 1800. The houses are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and feature a grey slate roof. They rise three storeys and have five windows across the front. The entrance includes a four-panel door with a simple overlight set within a Roman Doric stone case.
On either side of the entrance, there are three-storey brick bows, each with two recessed sash windows per floor. The ground and first floors have 12-pane windows, while the second floor has 6-pane windows. Above the entrance, there is a 12-pane recessed sash on the first floor and a 6-pane sash on the second floor. The first floor features a sill band, and the second-floor windows have painted stone sills. The ground and first-floor windows are topped with wedge lintels, and there is a frieze and eaves cornice just above the second-floor windows. The roofs of the bows curve forward, while the main roof is hipped. There are two brick chimneys symmetrically placed on the roof.
To the right of the entrance, there is a Roman Doric pilaster porch in front of a narrow yard for No. 13, which appears to be an afterthought but is consistent with the overall character of the building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
12 and 13, The Groves 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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