Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NEWGATE STREET
595-1/4/264 (East side)
10/01/72 No.23

GV II

Modest cottage, now office. Probably early C18, altered.
Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof.
2 storeys of one bay. The first storey has a 2-panel door,
south and a 1-pane shop window, both replaced. 3-course second
storey floorband; 2 replaced flush horned sashes have painted
stone sills and wedge lintels with false keystones; 3-course
band beneath brick parapet with plain painted stone coping; a
chimney behind the main ridge; a wing behind having, like the
main block, ridge parallel with the front has a north gable
chimney and modest windows.
INTERIOR: doors of 4 and 5 fielded panels; embrasures with
panels beneath the windows; some Georgian cornices. An
open-well stair of high quality for an apparently simple
dwelling, has open string with carved brackets, 3
column-on-vase balusters per step, rose, swept rail and
pilastered dado. The narrow hall has segmental archways. A
rear stair has square newels with knobs, closed string and
turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SJ4072066198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656927

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey