Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW NICHOLAS STREET
595-1/3/266 (West side)
28/07/55 Nos.4, 6 AND 8
(Formerly Listed as:
NICHOLAS STREET
(West side)
Nos 4-12 (even), No 14 & Nos 16-28
(even))

GV II

3 town houses, now shop and offices. c1781. By Joseph Turner
of Chester (plaque on No.8). Brown brick in Flemish bond to
front with roof of grey slate, some old.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, each house of 2 bays. No.4 has an
inserted recessed small-pane shopfront with square piers,
frieze and moulded cornice probably of artificial stone; Nos 6
& 8 each have a recessed 5-panel door with a square 6-pane
overlight in a tall case with frieze and cornice on panelled
pilasters and a replaced tripartite recessed sash with painted
stone sill; all windows have plastered wedge lintels, probably
facing to gauged brick heads, with cambered soffits; second
storey sillband; No.4 has 2 recessed 12-pane horned sashes;
Nos 6 & 8 each have a 12-pane horned sash; Nos 6 & 8 each have
a 12-pane sash and a 2;4;2 pane tripartite sash, all recessed
and replaced; third storey sillband; six 9-pane recessed
sashes; a lead rainwater head and pipe between Nos 4 & 6;
moulded cornice and low parapet of painted stone; 2 brick
chimneys at south end of each house.
The houses are less tall than Nos 10-26 (even) Northgate
Street (qv), with which they form a terrace. The north
gable-end of No.4, rebuilt when No.2 was demolished, has a
plain cap. The rear, with tunnel-backs to Nos 6 & 8, is
altered, but with some 16-pane sashes.
INTERIORS: No.4 has doors of 5 fielded panels in cases with
panelled architraves, a shuttered embrasure and a ceiling
cornice in the first storey, a 4-flight open-string dogleg
stair with shaped brackets, a pattern of intertwined
serpentine rods between the 2 balusters to each step and swept
rail; simple early to mid C19 fireplaces.
No.6 has a first storey cornice, a 4-flight open-string dogleg
stair with shaped brackets, slender plinthed and tapered
newels, 3 stick balusters per step and swept rail. The second
storey front room has cornice with festoon frieze, doors of 5
fielded panels and probably early C19 wooden fire surrounds,
painted. No.8 could not be inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4028066183

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656929

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