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

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