Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE GROSVENOR STREET
595-1/4/195 (South East side)
No.7
WRVS Office

GV II

Home and centre for midwives, then nurses' home, now WRVS
office. 1898. By Douglas and Minshull at the expense of the
1st Duke of Westminster for the Chester Benevolent Institution
which provided free midwifery services for the poor. Diapered
stone-dressed Ruabon red brick; Westmorland green slate roof.
Vernacular Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys; 4 bays. Flush ashlar sandstone
plinth; 2 stone steps in canted recessed porch to panelled
door with 2 small leaded lights, on wrought-iron hinges, in
stone basket arch; larger basket arch to front of porch
surmounted by carved stone panel inscribed W:1898, indicating
that the building was at the expense of the first Duke of
Westminster. Volutes to sides of panel. The mullioned and
transomed windows are leaded, under basket-arched heads. The
first storey has one 4-light casement west of door and 2 of 3
lights to east. Moulded second storey floor string, flush
sillband and lintel band; a 3-light casement, west, one of 2
lights over doorway, then 2 of 3 lights and one of 2 lights.
The 3-storey portion, east of doorway, has two 3-light
casements and one of 2 lights; 2 dormer gables. 2 shaped ridge
chimneys. The east side has miscellaneous small-pane timber
casements and a jettied canted bay of brick through the second
and third storeys. A one-storey outshut, west.
INTERIOR: has some original fireplaces and doors with reeded
stiles, rails and muntins.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 120;
Hubbard E: John Douglas: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SJ4053866053

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656874

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