Description

SJ4066
1932-1/6/241

CHESTER CITY (EM),
RAYMOND STREET (North side),
No.10
Diocesan House

(Formerly Listed as: RAYMOND STREET, Harvest House)

10/01/72

II

Ellesmere Canal Company Offices and Canal Tavern, later Tarvin
Rural District Council Offices and Chester Diocesan Offices.
The front office portion probably 1790s; the rear wing
formerly the tavern now part of offices, c1815. Painted stucco
front; English garden wall bond brown brick to sides and rear;
grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Raymond Street; symmetrical, with
pedimented central bay and slightly-recessed wing of one bay
to each side. The ground floor has a round-arched sash of
9-panes plus radial-bar fan in each bay; porch forming
single-storey right wing has 5 stone steps to quarter-landing;
1 step to doorway in Tuscan case in side of main block. A
rusticated round-arched opening to flight of 13 stone steps
down to Tower Wharf forms a left wing. The main block has a
first-floor band; a central 12-pane recessed sash with
architrave, consoles and cornice; a tripartite 4;12;4 pane
sash with architrave to each side-bay, that in west bay
altered. Simple frieze and moulded cornice; central pediment.
The east side is blank; the west side has 16-pane and 12-pane
sashes.
The rear, which was the front of the tavern, is symmetrical.
Door of two rows of 3 flush panels in case with simple
pilasters, frieze and Doric pediment; a recessed 12-pane sash
to each side. Three 12-pane recessed sashes to the first and
second floors. The east side of the former tavern has recessed
sashes irregularly disposed.
INTERIOR: has 6-panel doors, a main dogleg stair parallel with
the front, winders in the apsidal end of the stair-well;
open-string, shaped brackets, stick balusters and swept rail.
The former office and tavern wings are combined; a dogleg
stair formerly serving the tavern, simpler than the main
stair. Some cornices.

Listing NGR: SJ4007466627

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656622

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