Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/433 (North side)
28/07/55 No.104 Street (Grosvenor House)
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.104
Grosvenor House)

GV II

Town house, now offices and flats. c1780 of one build with
No.102 Street (qv). Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate
roofs.
EXTERIOR: semi-basement and 3 full storeys. The front wing has
ridge parallel with Watergate Street; the middle wing with
parallel roof projects west towards City Walls Road; the rear
wing is L-shaped. The face to Watergate Street has 2 replaced
hopper windows to basement, above a painted stone plinth, 2
recessed 12-pane sashes to first and second storeys and 2 of 6
panes to third storey, with painted stone sills and wedge
lintels with cambered soffits; the cornice is continuous with
that of No.102 Street. 11 stone steps with landings above
second and tenth steps and with ornamental cast-iron
balustrade on rendered plinth, west, to door of 6 fielded
panels in a pedimented case in the Watergate Street face of
the middle wing; above the doorway the wall is blank. The west
gable end of the front wing has two 12-pane recessed sashes to
the second storey, one 6-pane sash to the third storey and a
ridge chimney. The middle wing gable-end has 2 recessed
12-pane sashes to the first and second storeys, a 6-pane sash
and a sash without bars to the third storey and a 6-pane sash
to the loft, under a cambered brick head, in the gable. The
west face of the rear wing is battered below canted corners to
the second and third storeys, with a 16-pane recessed sash to
each storey; all west windows except to the loft have painted
stone sills and wedge lintels. The rear of the rear wing,
rendered on the first storey, has 2 inserted 4-pane casements
to the first storey and a recessed 12-pane sash to the second
storey.
INTERIOR: could not be viewed on date of inspection, but
original features are visible and a Roman altar-housing is
noted in the basement.

Listing NGR: SJ4014566205

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657020

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)