Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/287 (West side)
No.39 Street (Coach and Horses
Public House)

GV II

Public house. c1872. By Kelly and Edwards of No.7 St Werburgh
Street (not included). The lower 2 storeys are of
sandstone-dressed English bond brown brickwork, the third
storey and gables timber-framed with plaster panels; clay tile
roof.
EXTERIOR: the east front to Northgate Street has 2 bays, with
a central doorway and a blocked former doorway at the corner
of Princess Street, 7 spiral-moulded colonnettes of painted
wood bearing a moulded cornice at ceiling level on carved
consoles; the door has 3 lower panels and leaded glazing in a
large upper panel, with an overlight; a renewed 5-light window
south of the doorway and a 2-light window to north have
hoppers above the transom; the corner doorway now blocked in
brick has a single-pane window. The second storey has a window
of five 2-pane lights in the south bay and one of 2 lights in
the north bay, both having stone mullions and surrounds with
recessed chamfers. The third storey is slightly jettied with a
dentilled and moulded bressumer, on 2 brackets at the corner;
each with a carved female figure-head on its lower face; small
framing with curved braces to lower panel at ends of each bay
and ornamented panels beneath the 6-light mullioned and
transomed canted oriel in the south bay and the 5-light window
standing proud of the wall-face in the north bay; a carved
female figure on the posts at each end and between the bays.
The 2 front gables are jettied, with a dentilled carved
bressumer on consoles, small framing with quadrant braces,
carved bargeboards and finials; a moulded rainwater head at
the north end.
The south face to Princess Street has 4 spiral-moulded
colonnettes to the first storey, a central door of 6 panels,
the upper 3 glazed, in a doorcase with sidelights and
overlight; a replaced 3-light window with hoppers above the
transom, east, and a 4-light window with a central stone
mullion and intermediate wood mullions, west. The treatment of
the upper storeys is similar to that facing Northgate Street;
the second storey has a mullioned window of four 2-panel
lights and the west bay a similar window of 2 lights, with a
central casement of 4 panes between; the timber-framed third
storey has a 4-light mullioned and transomed window, east, and

one of 6 lights, west; both standing proud of the wall face;
the jettied gable above each window has a dentilled and
moulded bressumer on consoles, carved bargeboards and finials;
carved pendants at the eaves feet of the east gable; 2 rows of
5 panels, with a single-pane window, separate the gables. The
rear south gable-end is plastered; the north gable-end is of
brick with a broad double sash to the second storey and two
4-pane sashes to the third storey; a fire escape door has been
added; the window openings have brick camber-arched heads. 2
shaped brick chimneys.
The rear-yard has a former coach house and stable of brick
with a grey slate roof. Double boarded door to the street,
with a brick-nogged timber-framed gable above; stable-door to
yard; hayloft with loading door and breathers; the west wall
is rebuilt.
INTERIOR: the public rooms are altered and have no visible
features of interest.
(Chester Archaeological Society Transactions, Old Series:
Chester: 1871-1885: 8/1/1872).

Listing NGR: SJ4045066480

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Coach House Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26656943

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