Recorders Steps is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A Victorian Steps, monument.

Recorders Steps

WRENN ID
woven-remnant-wren
Grade
I
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
Steps, monument
Period
Victorian
Address
Recorders Steps, City Walls
OS grid reference
SJ 407 659
Coordinates
53.18709, -2.88785
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Recorders Steps are stone steps built between 1820 and 1822, consisting of two offset flights with 12 and 15 steps, connecting the City Walls to the Groves. They were constructed for Chester Corporation. The lower flight is separated from the wall by a strip of Gothick stonework. There is a plaque, likely from 1881 and mistakenly dated, set into the wall that reads: "RECORDER'S STEPS Erected by the Corporation of this City A.D.1700 for the Convenience of ROGER COMBERBACH, Recorder." Additionally, there is a boarded door in a late 19th-century ashlar archway near the drum tower to the west, which is inscribed "EDGAR HOUSE."

Local climate

Recorders Steps 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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