Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/277 (West side)
No.3 Street

GV II

Shop with dining room of the City Club No.1 Northgate Street
(qv). 1898-9. By HW Beswick. For Charles Brown. Timber framing
and pebbledash with slate roof, gable to street. Free
Vernacular Revival style.
2 storeys expressed as 3. Arcade of one bay to street has
posts in Jacobean Classical manner; modern shopfront of no
interest. The front to the dining room is expressed as 2
storeys, each jettied. The "second storey" has a full-width
9-light mullioned and transomed window above a pebbledashed
band, with leaded glazing and some coloured glass, the 5
central lights forming an oriel with pargeted panels above the
sidelights dated 1899; the window frame stands proud of the
wall, with a tapered pilaster to each side. The "third storey"
has a carved band beneath a gable with a 3-light leaded
window, ornate shaped bargeboards carried on paired consoles
and a finial. The rear is concealed.
INTERIOR: there is no visible evidence of an undercroft and
the first storey has no exposed features of interest; the
dining room is described under No.1 Northgate Street, the City
Club, of which it is an extension.
(History of the City Club, Chester: PRI.PUB.: Chester;
Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: MB 1898).

Listing NGR: SJ4051666328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96278299

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