Description

SJ4166
1932-1/6/109
10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM)
FOREGATE STREET
(South side)

Nos.128, 128A, 130 & 132
(Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET Nos.128, 130 AND 132)
II

GV

3 town houses, now 4 shops and accommodation. 1777, with C19
and C20 alterations. Brown brick, Flemish bond to front; grey
slate and clay tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: the right house, now Nos 128 and 130, has two C20
shopfronts, 3 recessed 2-pane sashes to first floor and 2
similar but shorter sashes to second floor. The central bay
has C20 restaurant front and upper windows similar to those of
Nos 128 and 130 but with 6 panes to upper leaves of first
floor and 3 panes in each leaf to second floor. No.132 has
vehicle entry under lintel and a narrow modern shop front; the
first floor has 2 recessed 12-pane sashes, the second floor
6-pane sashes. All upper storey windows have painted stone
sills and wedge lintels. Rainwater pipe between Nos 130 and
132 has upper bracket dated 1777 and cast lead head; an
unbroken vertical joint between central and left house;
modillion cornice. The right and central houses have ridges at
right-angle to street, the left house a tiled roof, ridge
parallel with front.
The central house has an 18-pane stair window to side.
INTERIORS not inspected, but some Georgian detailing in upper
rooms is visible from street.

Listing NGR: SJ 41120 66440

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656545

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)