6, Shipgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1998. Town house.
6, Shipgate Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-bailey-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1998
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 6, Shipgate Street, CH1 1RT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 406 658
- Coordinates
- 53.18639, -2.89016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 Shipgate Street is a small town house built around 1860. It features stone-dressed Flemish bond brown brick and a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the front. The building has a cellar, two storeys, and an attic, with two bays. At the base, there is a rusticated two-course sandstone plinth, likely older than the house itself, which includes a cellar vent.
The entrance on the right has a replaced framed and boarded door with a four-pane overlight above it. The front has a tripartite window with two over two panes, and a sandstone string course that extends as labels over the door and window. On the second storey, there are two dual two over two pane sash windows with sandstone sills and labels.
To the left, the dormer gable features kneelers and weathered stone coping, along with a small four-pane attic sash window that has a stone sill and label. The north-east end has a small two-pane sash window on the first storey, with a string course that continues from the front, rising over the tripartite window. There is also a boarded door in a lean-to addition.
At the rear, the second storey includes a twelve-pane sash window with a stone sill and lintel, and there are two small-pane attic sashes in the gable, which also has kneelers and weathered stone coping. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value due to its contribution to the streetscape and its position.
Local climate
6, Shipgate Street 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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