Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 CITY ROAD
1932-1/6/48 (East side)
24/09/90 Nos.4-10 (Even)

GV II

4 shops with living accommodation over, now shops and office.
By TM Lockwood. Buff sandstone, timber framing with plaster
panels and hard red brick; red-brown clay tile roof with 4
front gables before main ridge parallel with City Road.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Ashlar piers at each end and between
shopfronts; wrought-iron gates to entrances of Nos 2 and 6;
recessed entrances with canted 1-pane side windows, that to
No.8 altered; 1-pane windows to fronts of shops and office. A
painted timber console before the head of each pier supports
the jettied second storey which has a moulded fascia to the
bressumer carved where carried round the bases of 4 mullioned
and transomed 4-light oriels with leaded glazing and shaped
panes; the oriels to Nos 2 and 8 are canted, those to Nos 4
and 6 are bowed; above transom level glazing is carried
through between the oriels across the heads of close-studded
framing; the moulded cornice is carved above the oriels. The
third storey is jettied on consoles; a row of small-framed
panels with alternating shaped and herringbone bracing; a
5-light casement, with leaded glazing and shaped panes, in
each gable, those to Nos 2 and 8 having canted side lights and
those to Nos 4 and 6 having their 3 central lights bowed; 2
small-framed panels to each side of each casement and jettied
collars on consoles above, those to Nos 6 and 4 inscribed
"AD:1900"; herringbone struts, those to Nos 4 and 6 in
S-shaped curves; rainwater head between Nos 6 and 8 carved as
a face; moulded bargeboards; drop-finials with castellated
heads; a stone-dressed brick chimney on each end-gable and 2
on the ridge. The south end of No.2 has timber framing
returned to the gable-chimney and brickwork behind it; the
north end of No.8, formerly built against, is rendered.
The rear has no features of special interest.
The front is one of the most satisfying of TM Lockwood's
half-timbered designs.
INTERIORS not inspected.
The upper storeys of all properties and the first storey of
Nos 4 & 6 vacant in July 1990 when inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4118866520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656498

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record