Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW KING STREET
595-1/1/213 (South side)
10/01/72 No.29

GV II

Cottage. C17, altered. Lined render to the first storey;
planted mock timber framing to the second and third storeys;
brown brick west gable, partly rebuilt; painted brick rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Replaced recessed door; one recessed
9-pane sash to first and second storeys and a small 12-pane
horizontally-sliding sash to the third storey; a raised shield
of doubtful significance dated 1773; flush eaves; parapet
gable. Added one-storey gabled rear wing. The rear of the main
building has a 2-pane casement under a basket relieving arch
in the second storey and a mullioned 2-light casement in the
third storey; west chimney.
INTERIOR: has an open fire with oak beam to the front room and
a blocked corner fire to the back room; the rear wing has no
features of note. The stair has a 2-storey oak newel with a
butted joint, all the steps being winders; a central oak beam
from front to back in the first storey and, chamfered, in the
second storey; cupboard with oak door in face to the stair of
the chimney breast; the third storey has 2 oak purlins to each
slope, one in each case being of reused timber and the other
scarfed to an oak bracket in the east wall; some flat oak
rafters. The floorboards, now carpeted, are stated to be broad
and of oak.

Listing NGR: SJ4030166576

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656902

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