City Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
City Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- rough-gravel-claret
- 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
- Public house
- Address
- City Arms Public House, 32, Frodsham Street, CH1 3JL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 407 665
- Coordinates
- 53.19228, -2.88832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The City Arms Public House is a public house built in 1922, located on Frodsham Street in Chester. The building features a combination of brick and render with a red-brown clay tile roof. It is two storeys high and has two nearly symmetrical bays. The entrance consists of a free-style boarded oak door with strap hinges and a small-pane overlight set in a stone-dressed opening. On either side of the entrance, there are recessed small-pane bow windows. At the corner with Union Place, there are boarded oak double doors on strap hinges, flanked by massive oak brackets that support the first floor.
The upper storey has two 3-light small-pane rectangular casement windows, with the central lights featuring semicircular top-rails that project from the wall. The building is adorned with two cast rainwater heads and round cast-iron pipes. In the attic, there are 9-pane oval windows set within elaborately pargeted dentilled pediment-gables. The south side of the building includes a boarded barrel-drop door, a blocked doorway with flush stone quoins, and various windows. The first floor features a 3-light casement and a 4-light small-pane casement, along with two cast rainwater heads. A datestone on the front of the building is inscribed with "RWH 1922." The interior does not have any visible features of special interest.
Local climate
City Arms Public House 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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