Description

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SJ4166
1932-1/6/111

CHESTER CITY (EM)
FOREGATE STREET (South side)
No. 158

(Formerly listed as Nos.156 and 158)

28/07/55

GV
II
Town house. Mid C18. The left bay and east side to Dee Lane rebuilt or refurbished 1907 by WT Lockwood. Brick, stone dressings, grey slate roof.

EXTERIOR: the left bay has painted plinth, rusticated quoins, two flush 12-pane sashes to ground floor; the right bay has front door of two flush panels and two simple panels with overlight of a central pane and six margin panes in panelled Doric case with unfluted half-pillars and curved pediment with unmoulded frieze, dentils and egg-and-dart cornice; the sash left of door has eared architrave; a 12-pane flush sash and a two-panel secondary door with moulded hood; rusticated quoins at right corner. Each bay has two flush 12-pane sashes to first floor. All sashes have painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with projecting stone keys; the right bay has moulded stone coping. The left bay has moulded terracotta coping to half-round gable with cartouche dated 1907 and three ball finials. The east face to Dee Lane has six flush 12-pane sashes to ground floor and four to first floor. A ridge chimney and a lateral chimney on rear bay to Dee Lane. No visible features of special interest to rear.

INTERIOR: not inspected

Building vacant at time of survey (April 1992).

(Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 18.7.06 and 3.07.07).

Listing NGR: SJ4122866468

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656546

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)