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Latitude: 53.1934 / 53°11'36"N
Longitude: -2.8933 / 2°53'36"W
OS Eastings: 340411
OS Northings: 366634
OS Grid: SJ404666
Mapcode National: GBR 79.2ZMM
Mapcode Global: WH887.JZFQ
Plus Code: 9C5V54V4+9M
Entry Name: Number 73 Street Former Fire Station
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376360
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470355
ID on this website: 101376360
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester, St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Restaurant Shop Fire station
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/1/299 (West side)
10/01/72 No.73 Street (Former Fire Station)
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHGATE STREET
No.73
Fire Station)
GV II
Former fire station, now shop. 1911, altered. By James Strong.
For Chester City Council. Stone-dressed brick; timber frame
with plaster panels; clay tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The lower storey has 3 fire-engine garage
bays, now a shop entrance and 2 showroom windows, with yellow
sandstone ashlar corner piers, 2 intermediate stanchions
expressed as panelled oak posts, a panelled fascia above each
bay; long consoles on faces of piers and posts carry the
jetty-beam to the timber-framed second storey. 3 half-round
oriel windows with richly-carved skirts, carried on fan-vaults
with oak ribs and plaster panels; each oriel has 4 moulded
mullions and 2 moulded transoms; the central oriel has
sidelights of 2 lights; all have shaped leaded glazing.
Beneath the windows is a row of rectangular panels; 2 rows of
2 ornate panels between and to sides of windows. 3 small front
gables are boldly jettied above a row of shaped panels;
ornately panelled lozenge-braced trusses; a shaped red brick
chimney at the south end; a large late C20 office block abuts
the rear of the building.
INTERIOR is covered in shopfitters' materials with no features
of interest visible. There is no cellar.
(Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: MB
1910).
Listing NGR: SJ4041166634
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