Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW KING STREET
595-1/1/223 (North side)
10/01/72 No.20

GV II

Town house. Probably c1830. Brown brick in Flemish bond to
front; grey slate roof has ridge parallel with the street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, double fronted. Rendered plinth has
recessed bootscraper; 2 steps to door, just west of centre, of
5 fielded panels with radial bar fanlight in round-arched
doorcase with pilasters and open pediment; 4 windows per
storey, all with painted stone sills and wedge lintels with
cambered soffits and false keystones of 3 voussoirs; the
recessed horned sashes, of 12 panes to first and second
storeys and 6 panes to the third storey have exposed
sash-boxes; round-arched passage doorway, east, has boarded
door and plain fanlight; parapet frieze with fretted pattern
and modillion cornice; gable chimneys.
The rear, expressed as 2 houses, is rendered with features
replaced; the east part has a 2-storey outshut with lean-to
roof and further extension comprising a second-storey
conservatory on braced posts. The third storey above the
outshut has 2 recessed 12-pane sashes, flush verge and a west
ridge chimney. The west part has a 6-panel door with a
triangular overlight and a nearly flush 16-pane sash to the
first storey, an altered tall, thin, small-pane stair window,
a 12-pane recessed sash to the second storey, a casement of
two 2-pane lights with arched 2-pane fan above to the third
storey.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4035066592

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656896

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)