Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NEWGATE STREET
595-1/4/261 (East side)
10/01/72 Nos.15 AND 17
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWGATE STREET
(East side)
No.15)

GV II

2 town houses converted to one, now offices. Early C18
altered. Orange Flemish bond brick; grey slate roof, ridge at
right angle to front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 6 windows. The first storey is rebuilt in
approximately similar style, with double doors of 3 fielded
panels in case with pilasters, frieze and cornice; a
tripartite small-pane window to each side; boarded
loading-doors with 12-pane overlight, south. The second storey
has 6 replaced 14-pane horned sashes with small recessed sills
and flat gauged brick arches with brick keys. 3-course third
storey floorband; 6 nearly flush 12-pane sashes, the 3 to
north replaced and horned, the 3 to south with thick glazing
bars of early type; small recessed sills and gauged brick
arches with keys; painted stone cyma cornice; a lateral
chimney to each side. The rear, added to in C19, has old
brickwork but no visible features of special interest.
INTERIOR: the basement has brick walls, segmental archways and
quarry floors. The front rooms of the first storey have C20
panelling and rebuilt ceiling structure; a rear room has a
3-panel ceiling with 2 stop-chamfered longitudinal beams and
moulded plaster cornices. No.15 has an open-well closed-string
stair with square drop-newels, 3 stout turned balusters per
step and heavy moulded straight rail; the similarly detailed
stair to No.17 is altered, of one flight with winders at foot
and head. The second storey north front room has a cornice and
replaced doors. Door of 4 fielded panels in panelled case to
south front room, benches in panelled embrasures, full
panelling with one row below the dado and one above it, a
later fireplace and a dentil cornice. The rear north room has
2 longitudinal stop-chamfered beams and a cornice to each
ceiling panel. Rooms in the rear wing have no visible features
of special interest. The third storey has embrasure benches in
the front south rooms.

Listing NGR: SJ4070966211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656924

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)