Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE SHIPGATE STREET
595-1/6/362 (North West side)
10/01/72 No.12A
(Formerly Listed as:
SHIPGATE STREET
No.12)

GV II

Town house, now partly converted to flats. Probably later C18
altered c1970. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof
hipped at south-west end.
3 storeys, double-fronted; the end faces St Mary's Hill. Flush
2-storey sandstone plinth; 3 replaced steps to door of 4
fielded panels above 2 flush panels in simple repaired
pedimented case; a nearly flush 12-pane sash to each side has
painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels; second
storey sillband; 3 sashes similar to first storey; the third
storey has three 9-pane sashes in openings similar to second
storey; a ridge chimney. 8 courses of bevelled flush sandstone
quoins at south corner, with stone corbel carrying square
brick corner above; brick floor-bands to second and third
storeys; a nearly flush 9-pane sash to each storey.
The rear is reordered as the entrance to a court of late C20
flats.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4060565836

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656976

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)