Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE SHIPGATE STREET
595-1/6/359 (North West side)
18/07/55 No.4

GV II

Small town house, now forming part of office with No.2 (qv).
Mid C18 altered. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof
ridge parallel with front.
Semi-basement and 2 storeys; double fronted. 2 replaced 6-pane
casements to semi-basement. 9 stone steps with simple iron
railings on half-arch of brick to stone landing before
entrance with door of 6 fielded panels in good panelled case
with quasi-Ionic fluted pilasters, architrave, pulvinated
frieze and modillion cornice; pediment with cockle-shell
between 2 winged putti-heads on tympanum. 2-course floor-band;
two 12-pane flush sashes. 3-course second storey floorband;
two 12-pane flush sashes. All sashes have gauged brick heads;
no sills. Brick parapet with simple stone coping.
The west end has a replaced 6-pane casement to the basement
and a small inserted small-pane fixed light to the second
storey. The rear is altered.

Listing NGR: SJ4062265860

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656973

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)