Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 RAYMOND STREET
1932-1/6/242 (North side)
10/01/72 Telford's Warehouse
(Formerly Listed as:
RAYMOND STREET
Warehouse adjoining Harvest House)

GV II

Canal warehouse, now restaurant. c1790. By Thomas Telford. For
the Chester and Ellesmere Port Canal Company. English garden
wall bond brown brick; hipped grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys to Raymond Street, 3 to Tower Wharf. The
face to Raymond Street has replaced windows in unaltered
segmental-arched openings with painted stone sills, and
recessed sashes in openings with wedge lintels. A full-height
loading-bay, now with false doors. The ground floor has
replaced window; loading-bay; 2 replaced windows; window in
former doorway; a 16-pane sash; three steps in recessed
round-arched porch to door with 3-pane overlight. The first
floor has a replaced window; part-glazed filling to
loading-bay; a replaced window; two squat 8-pane sashes.
Simple stone fascia; boldly-projecting boxed eaves in
Telford's manner; brick ridge-chimney.
The south-west face to the Ellesmere Canal has 2 round-arched
openings on stone plinths to the covered loading dock; the
boats entered by the opening at the corner of the north-west
end; the dock is in the north-west wing of the warehouse. The
main block has sandstone rubbing blocks to corner; loading-bay
with doorway to each storey converted to a window; a replaced
1-pane window to each side of loading-bay in each storey.
The north-west face of the rear wing has boat-way to the
covered dock, with a great full-width window inserted above,
1980s; replaced vertical boarding in gable. The face of the
main block has a 16-pane sash to the ground floor and first
floor and an 8-pane sash to the second floor east of the rear
wing, and replaced windows above the rear wing.
The north-east side has a pair of doors of 6 flush panels with
a 3-pane overlight; a 16-pane sash to each side. The first
floor has three 16-pane sashes. The second floor has four
8-pane sashes.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4005466622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Telford's Warehouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7697201

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