Front Garden Wall to Bishops House Including Gate Piers and Arch is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Garden wall.

Front Garden Wall to Bishops House Including Gate Piers and Arch

WRENN ID
eastward-sandstone-oak
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
Garden wall
Address
Front Garden Wall to Bishops House Including Gate Piers and Arch, Abbey Square, CH1 2HU
OS grid reference
SJ 405 665
Coordinates
53.19261, -2.89116
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The front garden wall to Bishop's House, including the gate piers and arch, dates from the 18th century, although it likely has an earlier plinth. The structure features sandstone and brown brick in Flemish bond facing Abbey Square, while the brickwork facing Abbey Street is in English garden wall bond and has been partly renewed. The plinth is made of coursed sandstone.

The square gate piers on Abbey Square have plain plinths and fluted capstones with cornices topped by pyramidal stone balls. A wrought-iron pedestrian gate is set within a stone Gothick gateway, which has trefoil-headed panels in the posts and a cusped ogee carving in the lintel, all beneath a coved stone hood facing Abbey Street. The wall has stone coping, and there is a stepped gable to a shed located in the garden at the corner of Abbey Square. The plinth to the east of the gateway on Abbey Street has been re-faced.

Local climate

Front Garden Wall to Bishops House Including Gate Piers and Arch 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Abbey Chambers Grade II 16 m
  2. 13 and 14, Abbey Square Grade II 22 m
  3. Front Garden Wall to Numbers 13 and 14 Grade II 30 m
  4. Bishops House Grade II 30 m
  5. Number 11 and Attached Walls Grade II* 34 m
  6. Number 10 and Attached Walls Grade II* 39 m
  7. Cross in Centre of Abbey Square Grade II 41 m
  8. Number 9 and Attached Walls Grade II* 46 m
  9. Perimeter Wall to Central Oval Raised Lawn Grade II 53 m
  10. Former Monastic Buildings to Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Grade I 55 m