94-126 Chester Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Terrace of shops. 1 related planning application.
94-126 Chester Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-corbel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Terrace of shops
- Address
- 94-126 Chester Street, CH41 5DL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 326 887
- Coordinates
- 53.39134, -3.01417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of six shops located at 94-126 Chester Street, built around 1847, possibly designed by Walter Scott. The building features an ashlar facade and a Welsh slate roof, rising three storeys with an attic and comprising a 14-window range in the Italianate style. The curved corner is emphasized by pilasters that connect to Nos. 1-11 Cross Street and 128 Chester Street. There are five late 19th-century shop fronts, with Nos. 94-98 showcasing shallow canted bay windows. The upper windows are 12-pane sash windows, with entablatures supported by console brackets on the first floor and rosette corbels on the second storey. A moulded cornice leads to six-pane sash windows in the attic. The corner bay features tripartite windows and a modillion eaves cornice. Axial stacks are present. This range was part of the Market Cross development, which was completed in 1847 as a shopping centre.
Local climate
94-126 Chester Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 application
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- 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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