Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET
1932-1/6/114 (North side)
28/07/55 No.71

GV II

Includes: No.2 QUEEN STREET.
Town house now shop and masonic lodge. Early C18 refronted to
Queen Street 1883. Stone-dressed Flemish bond orange brick;
grey slate hipped roof, ridge at right-angle to Foregate
Street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 windows. The 3-bay arcade to Foregate
Street has columns and responds carrying stone basket-arches
with alternate voussoirs moulded and projecting, and triple
keystones; rusticated end-piers to arcade and quoins to upper
storeys. C20 shopfront. First-floor sillband; 3 flush 15-pane
sashes; rusticated lintels with projecting keys. The second
floor has 3 flush 9-pane sashes with painted stone sills and
rusticated wedge lintels with keys; modillion cornice and
1-course stone parapet.
The long west face to Queen Street has C18 eared and
pedimented case to 6-panel door; the rest dates from 1883,
with small-pane sashes and stone-dressed cross-windows, the
latter in 2 projecting bays with pediments above eaves level,
the rear one of stone with cartouche; a blunt spire behind the
pediment.
INTERIOR: a good open-well stair with newels and close-set
slender turned balusters; 6-panel doors, some with lower and
upper cross-panels; moulded plaster ceilings; first-floor
dining room and second-floor hall occupy full width of the
front.
(Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee
Minutes: 7.2.1883).

Listing NGR: SJ4091266422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656539

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)