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Latitude: 53.1898 / 53°11'23"N
Longitude: -2.8949 / 2°53'41"W
OS Eastings: 340305
OS Northings: 366231
OS Grid: SJ403662
Mapcode National: GBR 79.35B4
Mapcode Global: WH88F.H2QY
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q4+W3
Entry Name: Number 70 Street Old Custom House
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376450
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470451
Also known as: Number 70 Watergate Street (Old Custom House), Upstairs at the Grill
ID on this website: 101376450
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 Custom house
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/420 (North side)
10/01/72 No.70 Street (Old Custom House)
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.70
Old Custom House)
GV II
Custom House of the Port of Chester, now office. Rebuilt 1868
with Gothic Revival detail. Stone-dressed Flemish bond brown
brick; grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey, 3 windows. Sandstone plinth and flush
quoins. Door and window openings to the front have stone
surrounds with quoins and hoodmoulds, all with relieving
arches of alternating red and yellow sandstone voussoirs. The
replaced door to right has an arched stone overlight of a
quatrefoil between 2 smaller ones with the inscription "THE
OLD CUSTOM HOUSE BLDG". 2 sashes to the lower storey of one
pane above 2 have steeply-weathered sills; a moulded
first-floor band; the upper storey has 3 sashes of one pane
over 2, with 2 superimposed sills, the upper ones being
recessed. The stone parapet, pierced with quatrefoils, has a
raised centrepiece bearing the Royal arms in relief.
The west gable-end is plain, with a brick chimney with stone
band and cap, and now linked to the west end of the Guildhall,
formerly Holy Trinity Church, by a screen wall; the east end
is built against the tower of the Guildhall.
INTERIOR: patterned tiled floor to entrance bay; stair with
narrow open well has newel, and 2 turned balusters to each
step; plaster cornices to entrance bay and stair well; 6-panel
doors, most now covered; 2 panels beneath east front window to
second storey; modern extension at rear.
Listing NGR: SJ4030566231
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