2-5, Old Hall Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1993. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.

2-5, Old Hall Place

WRENN ID
blind-minaret-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1993
Type
Cottages
Address
2-5, Old Hall Place, CH1 2BX
OS grid reference
SJ 404 662
Coordinates
53.18959, -2.893
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A row of four cottages, numbered 2-5 Old Hall Place, was built around 1889 as staff accommodation for Browns of Chester department store. The design was by T.M. Lockwood and commissioned by Charles Brown. The cottages are constructed of Flemish bond brown brick with decorative hard red brick dressings and have a red clay tile roof.

The two-storey design includes a plinth and a moulded band at the upper level. Each cottage has a part-glazed framed and boarded door, and a mullioned casement window with three arched panes in the lower storey. The doors of numbers 2 and 5 are angled to create triangular canopies supported by timber brackets. Each cottage also features a timber oriel window with three 8-pane lights, set under a timber-framed dormer gable. Shaped brick ridge chimneys are present. The gable ends feature a mullioned window with two 3-pane metal lights in the upper storey. Rear offices were also included.

The interiors remain uninspected. The cottages are historically linked with numbers 24 and 26 Commonhall Street. Records from the Chester City Council Improvement Committee confirm the commission and construction date.

Local climate

2-5, Old Hall Place 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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