3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Shops.
3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-grate-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Shops
- Address
- 3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street, Birkenhead
- OS grid reference
- SJ 326 887
- Coordinates
- 53.39155, -3.01406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a group of four shops located at 3-9 Market Street and 90 and 92 Chester Street in Birkenhead, dating from around 1837. Originally the Albion Hotel, designed by Edward Welch, it features an ashlar facade and was once topped with a Welsh slate roof, which is now missing. The structure has three storeys and a five-window range that is unevenly spaced.
There are three early 20th-century shop fronts, each with pilasters on either side and a beaded moulding over the fascia, although parts of the fascia are now missing. The upper window spaces are currently devoid of cases, but they likely originally held twelve-pane sash windows. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the building.
On the Chester Street side, there is a pedimented return featuring a three-window range with stressed architraves; however, the stone brackets for a balcony are now absent. The central door and flanking windows on the rusticated basement storey are largely blocked, leaving only the stressed voussoirs visible. Additionally, there is a late 19th-century shop front with a canted bay to the left.
Local climate
3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, 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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