Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE BRIDGE PLACE
595-1/6/33 (East side)
28/07/55 No.5
and rear dwelling and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE PLACE
Nos.1-11 AND 13 (Odd))

GV II*

A substantial town house and rear dwelling, now offices and
rear house. Mid C18. Flemish bond brown brick, sandstone and
hipped grey slate roof, ridge at right-angle to front.
EXTERIOR: basement and 4 storeys of 3 bays. Wrought-iron
railing to stone-paved forecourt with 10 stone steps down to
basement which has boarded door under steps and landing to
main entrance. Coursed sandstone front to basement has a
replaced window. Front door of 6 fielded panels, north, has a
decorated radial-bar fanlight and a panelled case with fluted
pilasters, Doric frieze and segmental pediment. Flush sashes
with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels with
keystones: 2 of 12 panes to first storey; 3 of 12 panes to
second storey; 3, shorter, of 12 square panes to the third
storey, and 2, replaced, of 4 panes to fourth storey. Fluted
rainwater head and, in part, pipe near each corner. Stone
cornice and brick parapet with simple coping.
The rear of the main block has flush sashes; tripartite of
4;12;4 panes to first storey, 12-pane to second storey and of
12 square panes to third storey; replaced with 4 panes to
fourth storey; all have painted stone sills and keystones to
segmental brick arches. A small rear wing, north, has a 4-pane
flush sash and a replaced stair window with arched head;
stone-capped parapets to gables.
Attached to rear wing of main block a long 3-storey wing
contains a separate house: the first storey has a nearly flush
12-pane sash to each side of a 6-panel door with fanlight in a
pedimental case; the second and third storeys have a long
round-arched stair window with a nearly flush 12-pane sash and
a 4-pane attic-storey sash to each side; the rear gable-end
has a 4-pane window to the first storey; a flush sash of 12
square panes and a C20 bridge to a modern door to the second
storey; a cavetto stone coping to gable-parapet. The attached
yard wall has curved wrought-iron spikes, east, where it is a
retaining wall; a flight of 24 stone steps down to flagged
passage to the main block and yard to the rear house.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4068265861

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552105

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version