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Latitude: 53.1913 / 53°11'28"N
Longitude: -2.8843 / 2°53'3"W
OS Eastings: 341009
OS Northings: 366391
OS Grid: SJ410663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2V65
Mapcode Global: WH88F.N1PS
Plus Code: 9C5V54R8+G7
Entry Name: 78-94, FOREGATE STREET (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 23 July 1998
Last Amended: 11 September 2000
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375805
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469784
ID on this website: 101375805
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
Tagged with: Department store
SJ 4066 CHESTER CITY (EM) FOREGATE STREET
(South side)
1932-1/6/105
Nos.78-94 (Even)
23.07.1998
GV II
Cooperative department store. 1904-5. By Douglas and Minshull. For the Chester Cooperative Society. Extended 1914 and converted 1980s to a range of shops. Stone-dressed brick. Baroque in manner. EXTERIOR: 9 bays to Foregate Street; 3 bays to Love Street, right. The ground floor has Roman Doric bay columns of cream stone, altered shop-fronts and blank fascia. The first floor has broad display windows with stained patterned leaded glazing above transom; the narrower windows have sashes and inserted hoppers; all have stone surrounds. Stone frieze and cornice on corbels. The corner has a segmental-arched 3-light window of 7;16;7 panes to each face, above eaves level, beneath a lead-roofed cupola with a small-paned lantern and domed roof with tall finial. 5 quasi-Palladian timber ;6;20;6;6-pane dormers, and a stone-dressed Baroque dormer casement to Foregate Street and to Love Street. The 3 left bays to Foregate Street, 1914, are flat-roofed. 2 ridge chimneys, one with stone cap. HISTORICAL NOTE: not in any of John Douglas's normal Vernacular Revival manners, the design shocked the City Council Improvement Committee; the partial leaded glazing was the price paid for their approval.
(Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 25.5.04; 22.6.1914).
Listing NGR: SJ4100966391
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