Description

SJ4066SE
595-1/4/347
18/08/71

CHESTER CITY (IM)
ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD

Commercial Hotel & attached wall & St Peter's Fine Art Gallery

(Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) The Commercial Hotel & building adjoining to S of hotel)

II

GV

Hotel and art gallery. c1807. Brown brick in Flemish bond to
front and part of south wing; grey slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical double-fronted main block.
Painted sandstone plinth; recessed door of 6 flush panels with
simple overlight in painted stone case with moulded
architrave, frieze and cornice; flat gauged brick arches and
painted stone sills to recessed sashes, one of 12 panes to
each side of door, 3 of 15 panes to second storey and 3 of 12
panes to third storey; cornice; flush chimney at each end of
main block; cast-iron rainwater head and pipe at north end of
the front; the south west corner of the main block roof is
hipped, all other roofs are gabled. The south end of the main
block has a door of 4 glazed panels above 2 flush panels; each
upper storey has a recessed 12-pane sash with gauged-brick
flat arch and painted stone sill; lead rainwater head and
upper part of pipe at south-west corner. The high brick wall
attached to the north-east corner of the hotel links it to the
City Club, No.1 Northgate Street (qv), closing the north end
of St Peter's Churchyard.
A recessed south wing, the first storey occupied by an art
gallery, is early C19 with a later recessed extension; the
earlier part perhaps of 2 builds is brown brick in Flemish
bond; the later part painted stretcher bond; the windows have
painted stone sills, some replaced in wood, and cambered brick
heads; the first storey has a replaced flush tripartite 2;2;2
pane horned sash, a replaced 6-panel door in a probably
replaced doorcase with frieze and cornice and a full-width bay
window of three rows of 9 panes, abutting the older part north
and with a quadrant south end, a panelled painted plaster
plinth, a medallion cornice and a flat roof; the second storey
has a brick band of one projecting course above a
brick-on-edge course laid diagonally, a nearly flush 4;12;4
pane tripartite sash and a 12-pane sash; the third storey has
a 9-pane sash, a tripartite 3;9;3 pane sash and a 12 pane sash
which projects above the eaves; cast-iron rainwater pipes.

The rear has a part-glazed framed and boarded door in a plain
wooden case with a replaced window to each side; the first
storey of the projecting south wing is concealed; the second
storey has an altered tripartite sash, north, two 12-pane
sashes and a small inserted 2-pane sash, plus a nearly flush
12-pane sash in the south wing; the third storey has two
9-pane sashes, a small inserted window, a 9-pane sash, a small
inserted window and, in the south wing, a nearly flush 12-pane
sash.
INTERIOR: retains the domestic plan of an early C19 public
house.
(History of the City Club, Chester: Chester: 1800-).

Listing NGR: SJ 40502 66314

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656969

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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