Description

SJ4066
1932-1/6/30

CHESTER CITY (EM)
CANAL STREET
(South side)

No.5 and warehouse adjacent to house, including railings and post
II

GV

House and adjoining warehouse. c1830 and c1870. Probably for
the Shropshire Union Canal Company. English garden wall bond
brown brick and Flemish bond red brick; grey slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; double-fronted 1870s front wing,
stone-dressed, with older parallel rear wing and long workshop
wing, right. Symmetrical house front with canted corners has
stone-capped plinth; apron step to door of 4 fielded panels
and 1-pane fanlight in round-arched opening with flush stone
quoins; painted stone sills and chamfered lintels; a
tripartite 2;2;2 pane sash to each side of doorway and a
2-pane sash in each canted corner; the first floor has 2 pairs
of 2-pane sashes to front and a sash to each corner; cornice
and 1-course stone parapet; roof hipped to street.
The workshop wing has large inserted vehicular doors, boarded
and part-glazed; small-pane windows with stone sills and
segmental gauged brick heads; hipped roof; lean-to outshut,
south.
East end of house to street has unbroken brick joint between
front and rear wings. The rear has 6-panel door with segmental
arch. Tudor-arched brick window openings have painted stone
sills and Gothick iron casements with reticulated tracery: 2
windows south of door and one north of door; 2 windows to
first floor.
INTERIOR: panelled dados; 2 fireplaces, one with slender
pillared overmantel. Stair with open string, shaped brackets,
shaped newel and cast-iron balusters c1870; exposed beams and
joists.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron corner post, gate and garden
railing to street have cross-braced bottom rail and lock-rail
and double top rail with roundels; spears and acanthus
finials.

Listing NGR: SJ 40292 66683

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656485

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