Lime Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. Warehouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lime Shed
- WRENN ID
- drifting-baluster-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Lime Shed, Dock Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 405 772
- Coordinates
- 53.28905, -2.8929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lime Shed, built around 1830 and extended between 1880 and 1885, is a single-storey rectangular warehouse made of red-brown brick with slate roofs. The building features stone cappings on the end gables and at the parapet where it changes level to the taller north-western extension. There are boarded doors located at the south-east end and along the north-east side, which faces the canal arm. Two circular ventilator windows were later added to the older part of the building. The west corner is chamfered and corbelled above to create space for horses to pass between the building and the canal. Additionally, there are remains of a crane fixing on the north-east wall, which was used for lifting planks into the dry dock.
Local climate
Lime Shed 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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