Latitude: 53.1913 / 53°11'28"N
Longitude: -2.8853 / 2°53'6"W
OS Eastings: 340947
OS Northings: 366386
OS Grid: SJ409663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2TYF
Mapcode Global: WH88F.N18T
Plus Code: 9C5V54R7+GV
Entry Name: 70, Foregate Street
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375801
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469780
ID on this website: 101375801
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/104 (South side) 28/07/55 No.70
GV II
Small town house, now shop. Probably mid C17, altered. Timber frame with plaster panels; later brick wing to rear; roof of small grey slates. Cellar and 2 storeys of one bay; arcade with stop-chamfered end posts and a round-cornered central post on sandstone bases. Shopfront probably early C20 has cellar vents beneath a row of small framing; recessed porch, right, with canted sides and shop window with leaded glazing above transom; dentil cornice. Joists exposed over arcade. The first floor has rectangular flush bressumer and 7-light mullioned and transomed casement proud of wallface on brackets, with 3 shaped panels beneath and 2 panels to each side. Small-framed jettied front gable, shortened finial and replaced bargeboards. The sides of the first floor above the arcade have 3 panels beneath a leaded casement. The second bay, exposed right, is brick and render. The 3-storey third bay has projecting central chimney on gable to front. INTERIOR: Jacobean cross-beam. Stone steps to cellar. Doorway to room behind shop in late C17-early C18 manner, apparently altered and partly remade, has fluted pilasters and frieze on consoles. Surfaces in cellar and rear room are covered.
Listing NGR: SJ4094766386
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