Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/426 (North side)
10/01/72 Nos.88 & 90 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.88)
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.90)

GV II

2 town houses, built together, now offices. Probably late C18,
altered and converted later C20. Flemish bond brown brick;
grey slate roof.
3 storeys plus added dormers to loft. Each former house has a
small opening to a cellar, in the painted stone plinth. No.88
has 2 steps to a door, east, of 4 fielded panels with a plain
overlight in a recessed porch which has a restored or rebuilt
case with a simple pediment on console brackets. Each house
had 2 recessed sashes to each storey, with painted stone sills
and wedge lintels; the sashes to the first and second storeys
are of 12 panes, those to the third storey 6 panes; the
doorway to No.90 is replaced by a facsimile sash; the sash
boxes are displayed in No.90. The cornice and roof carries
through; 2 reverse-pitch slate-cheeked dormers are inserted in
the roof of each house; ridge chimneys. The rear wall is
rebuilt, with sills and cambered heads of brick to three
12-pane recessed sashes to the first and second storeys and of
6 panes to the third storey.
INTERIOR: rebuilt in keeping but without retention of original
features.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ4022366216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657012

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)