Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/186 (South side)
10/01/72 Grosvenor Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
Grosvenor Hotel)

GV II

Hotel. 1863-6. Begun by TM Penson and completed by RK Penson
and Ritchie for the second Marquis of Westminster.
Stone-dressed brown Flemish bond brick and timber framing with
plaster panels; steep grey slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys of 7 window-bays plus basement and attics,
heavily expressed in quasi Vernacular Revival manner. The
first storey has a 9-bay colonnade, perhaps of C13 derivation;
the painted cylindrical columns have stone plinths and
capitals; stone abutment west and bay with a pair of
cross-windows, east. The upper storeys are almost symmetrical
with a central bay between gabled projecting bays flanked by 2
windows; a tourelle at each corner. The windows to the second
and third storeys are mullioned and transomed, stone-dressed
to the second storey and to the projecting bays of the third
storey and to the corbelled tourelles. The other parts of the
third storey and all the fourth storey are expressed as timber
framing, probably applied. The tourelles have third and fourth
storey oriels. The fourth storey has a quadruple sash in the
central bay, paired triple sashes expressed as mullioned and
transomed windows in the projecting bays and triple, dual and
single sashes elsewhere. Paired dual sashes in front gables; a
gabled roof; dormer triple sash between and to each side of
the front gables. The gables have idiosyncratic bracing and
ornate bargeboards; the tourelles have spires. Stone-banded
brick chimneys.
The west side to the Grosvenor-Laing Precinct, formerly
Newgate Street, is similarly composed and detailed to the
front, but shorter and without the colonnade. A canted panel
of stone at the corner bears the Grosvenor Arms, the hotel
name and the Grosvenor sheaf.
INTERIOR: is well appointed, but with no individual features
of special interest.

Listing NGR: SJ4069866306

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Chester Grosvenor and Spa at Wikipedia
• Chester Grosvenor and Spa official website
• Wikidata Q5093580

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