Grade II listed buildings in Chester (central)

Chester contains listed buildings dating back to the Roman conquest of Britain, when the city was the major fortress in the northwest of England, known as Deva Victrix, and a port on the River Dee.

During this time northern section of the city walls was built, and the four main roads, which survive to the present, were created.

Following this, the city prospered and, despite the closing of the port due to silting of the river, there was much building and rebuilding during the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the middle of the century there was a reaction against the Georgian and Neoclassical style of architecture, and Chester was at the forefront of the Black-and-white Revival, reintroducing timber-framed buildings into the city.

One of the most recent listed buildings is Addleshaw Tower, a free-standing bell-tower of Chester Cathedral, built in 1973–75 in a Modernist style.

Unusual listed structures include a scale model of Grosvenor Bridge, the War Memorial, a Cenotaph to Matthew Henry, a tombstone commemorating the soldier Thomas Gould, a sundial, a birdbath and two telephone kiosks.