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

• Wikidata Q26657020

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)