Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET
1932-1/6/100 (South side)
10/01/72 Nos.2, 4 AND 6
Old Bank Buildings

GV II

Shops and offices. 1895. By TM Lockwood. Timber-framed to
front and to City Walls, white glazed brick to light-well and
rear; brown tile roof.
EXTERIOR: cellars and 3 storeys; 2 bays, narrower covered
entrance bay and one bay. Arcaded ground floor has end-post
left, intermediate posts and timber bracket to Eastgate,
right. The posts probably conceal stanchions; plinths and
capitals with vase-balusters to front and brackets to
bressumer. 2 modern shopfronts left of basket-arched entry,
one shopfront to right. Shallow first-floor jetty has running
vine carved on fascia. The first floor is close-studded; three
6-light mullioned and transomed windows, the central 4 lights
of each forming a bowed or canted oriel on carved brackets, 2
in the form of dragons. The close-studded second floor has
bold jetty on 6 dragon-brackets; 2 mullioned and transomed
oriels, left and centre, with broad central lights
round-topped; right bay has composite casement in form of a
cross-window to each side of a Palladian window; all glazing
is leaded. The 2 left bays have close-studded front gables;
eaves have exposed rafters to entrance bay and right bay.
The left end of the arcade is open, with the storeys above
close-studded; the corner turret is timber-framed with a
copper cupola roof (a common feature of Lockwood's designs)
with tall finial. The right end of the City Walls has a
stone-dressed flush plinth of hard red brick, small framing to
the gable-ends against the Wall, 2 stone-dressed shaped brick
chimneys, rainwater pipe and head. Behind the gables a square
light-well of white brick has leaded mullioned and mullioned
and transomed windows; a tall square chimney at back left
corner; close-studded second floor; close-studded gable to
wing behind light-well; a lower close-studded wing extends to
the Wall, with a 15-panel basket-arched oak door.
A 2-storey wing of brick to rear has hipped roof; 3
stone-dressed chimneys towards rear.
INTERIOR: generally simply finished, but has a broad open-well
stair with ornate cast-iron balustrade to first floor and
simpler expression above.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 165).

Listing NGR: SJ4072766332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Old Bank Buildings at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26656532

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