Description

SJ4065NE
595-1/6/242
28/07/55

CHESTER CITY (IM)
SHIPGATE STREET
(North West side)
No.2

Shipgate House

II*

GV

Town house, now offices. Some internal features probably late
C17 but facade rebuilt mid C18. Stone-dressed irregular
Flemish bond red-brown brick with hipped grey slate roof,
ridge parallel with front.
EXTERIOR: basement and 3 storeys; double-fronted. The brick
plinth with flush quoins and moulded stone cap has 3 steps
down to door of 3 fielded panels and a small-pane cross-window
left of main entrance; external L-shaped stone stair of 5 and
4 steps on brick support to door of 6 fielded panels with
fanlight of shaped panes in case with fluted pilasters and
pedimented hood on modillion brackets; 2 flush 12-pane sashes;
the second storey has a stone floor-band and 3 flush sashes of
12 square panes; the third storey has a stone floor-band and 3
flush pane sashes; the windows have stone sills and gauged
brick heads with keystones; a stone cornice beam, on
modillions; boldly-projecting boxed eaves with a moulded
cornice, returning to the south-west side. The rear is
altered.
INTERIOR: the basement has probably C17 external walls of
coursed sandstone and 6 chamfered oak cross-beams; the second
bay has a former inglenook pierced to provide a doorway with
an oak bressumer to No.4 Shipgate Street (qv). The first
storey has a simple passage, a round arch on fluted antae to
stair-hall which has a refaced basket-arch under landing;
6-panel door to west front room. Open-well closed-string oak
stair has square newels, 2 barleysugar balusters per step,
straight rails of moulded rectangular section and panelled
dado with panelled pilasters. The second storey landing has
oak beams; the front room has oak shutters in embrasures,
fluted frieze and moulded cornice. The open-well stair
continues to third storey and attic. The third storey has 3
oak beams parallel with the front and 2 angled beams beneath
the hips. The attic has angled struts, principal rafters,
purlins and rafters of oak. The II* grading is for the facade
and stair.

Listing NGR: SJ 40622 65866

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Shipgate House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7497995

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)