Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/421 (North side)
28/07/55 No.78 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.78)

GV II

Includes: No.1 LINEN HALL PLACE.
Town house, unoccupied when inspected. Probably mid C18.
Flemish bond yellow-brown brick; grey slate roof, hipped to
street corner.
3 storeys. The front to Watergate Street has a red sandstone
plinth, 2 tripartite sashes of 4;12;4 panes with painted stone
sills and cambered arches of reddish gauged brick to first and
second storeys; casements inserted in third storey window
openings; modillion stone cornice; chimney at each end; the
entrance is to Linenhall Street, with door of 4
bolection-moulded panels with 3-pane overlight in a simple
pedimented doorcase. 2 small-pane street windows in wood
sub-frames are in inserted chamber-arched openings right of
door; 2 street-framed casements in original camber-arched sash
openings in second storey; a 12-pane flush sash and a sash
altered to 6 panes with painted sills and timber lintels in
third storey; an eaves facia-board. The rear gable-end is
cement rendered, with a replaced door and a replaced metal
casement to each storey.
INTERIOR: access not possible.

Listing NGR: SJ4025866224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657007

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)