1 and 2, City Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Shop, workshop.
1 and 2, City Walls
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-truss-spindle
- 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, workshop
- OS grid reference
- SJ 404 666
- Coordinates
- 53.19381, -2.89296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 2 City Walls is a shop and workshop that was partially used as living accommodation, built around 1800. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brown brick and topped with a grey slate roof. The building has three storeys plus an attic.
The west end facing Northgate Street features a modest shopfront with a door made up of two glazed panels above two flush panels, and a one-pane shop window above a panelled stall-riser. There are three pilasters, with the second storey showcasing a flush 12-pane sash window alongside a casement window with two one-pane lights. The third storey has three similar casement windows, and there is one in the gable for the attic.
On the side facing the City Wall, the second storey has a shop window consisting of three rows of five panes, complete with a timber sill and pilaster case. There is a stone step leading to a door with two glazed panels above two flush panels, and a hood above it. Additionally, there is a possibly inserted door with two glazed panels above two flush panels. The third storey features two small-pane sash windows and a small fixed light. The interiors do not have any visible features of special interest.
Local climate
1 and 2, City Walls 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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