49 Watergate Street and 55-57 Watergate Row South is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A Medieval Shop, flat. 1 related planning application.

49 Watergate Street and 55-57 Watergate Row South

WRENN ID
lost-postern-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1955
Type
Shop, flat
Period
Medieval
Address
49 Watergate Street and 55-57 Watergate Row South, CH1 2LE
OS grid reference
SJ 403 662
Coordinates
53.18984, -2.8936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

49 Watergate Street and 55-57 Watergate Row South is a Grade II listed building located in Chester. It features fragments of the undercroft of a medieval town house, which now serves as shops and flats. The structure was rebuilt from the Row level upward in the 1970s. It is constructed of sandstone and timber frame with plastered panels, topped with a slate roof. The upper storeys reflect the form of the house as it was rebuilt in the 17th century. Surviving sections of medieval squared sandstone rubble walls indicate that the undercroft was 5.3 meters wide, and the west wall has two double corbels that are 1.15 meters apart, with a burn mark between them.

Local climate

49 Watergate Street and 55-57 Watergate Row South 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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