Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 STEAM MILL STREET
1932-1/6/268 (West side)
06/11/89 Office of former Flour Mill west of
Steam Mill Street

GV II

Flour mill office. 1897. Stone-dressed hard red brick with
slate roof, hipped at south end; the roof has 2 parallel
ridges; flat-roofed single storey north wing of no special
interest.
EXTERIOR: the principal feature of the building is the east
front, Baroque in character, to the yard of the former
steam-powered Georgian flour mill (qv). The front is of 4 bays
with brick pilasters. Glazed door, north, in doorcase with
flush stone quoins and arched lintel carved OFFICE; moulded
brick dado; 2 shaped 6-pane windows and one of 4 panes with
upper hoppers in stone basket arches; dentil course at second
storey floor; the second storey has seven 2-pane sashes with
stone band and dentil course above; brick parapet with stone
cornice carried in semicircle above central clock in ornate
stone surround dated 1897; stone balls above pilasters and
clock-surround. The west front to Union Street is plainer with
double doors of 2 fielded panels above one flush panel, with
similar fixed wooden side panels, in south bay; plinth, sill
and lintel bands; brick pilasters; parapet and cornice;
rectangular office windows of 2, 4 and 6 panes.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Included for group value with former steam flour mill (qv) and
Milns Seed Warehouse, Canal Side (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ4124866592

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656638

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)