Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 CHRISTLETON ROAD
1932-1/6/46 (North side)
No.33
Ye Gardeners Arms Public House

II

Public house. 1907. By JH Davies and Sons. For the Albion
Brewery. Front of sandstone and timber framing with plaster
panels; right side rendered; Westmorland green slate roof with
ridge to front gable meeting main ridge parallel with front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and roof attic, double-fronted. Ground
floor of banded red and yellow sandstone. Oak doorway with
long consoles and carved Tudor-arched head; a 3-light
mullioned leaded window to each side; rear entry left; long
consoles support jettied timber-framed first floor; a row of
small-framed shaped plaster panels; almost continuous glazing,
mullioned and leaded: oriel triangular in plan above entrance;
a 4-light canted oriel to each side; a 2-light casement above
entry, left; one-light casement far right. The almost
full-width front gable has row of quadrant-braced
small-framing with a 3-light leaded attic casement above;
bargeboards and carved finial; red brick chimneys. A
well-handled unaltered front; the right side and rear have no
individual features of special interest visible.
INTERIOR: intact; the licensed rooms have 3 rows of oak
panelling, up to moulded oak picture rail; back-to-back
fireplaces to front and rear rooms, right; fireplace to front
room left; cross-beams with roll-moulds to arrises.
(Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee
Minutes: 16.1.1907).

Listing NGR: SJ4197366406

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656495

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