Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET
1932-1/6/104 (South side)
28/07/55 No.70

GV II

Small town house, now shop. Probably mid C17, altered. Timber
frame with plaster panels; later brick wing to rear; roof of
small grey slates.
Cellar and 2 storeys of one bay; arcade with stop-chamfered
end posts and a round-cornered central post on sandstone
bases. Shopfront probably early C20 has cellar vents beneath a
row of small framing; recessed porch, right, with canted sides
and shop window with leaded glazing above transom; dentil
cornice. Joists exposed over arcade. The first floor has
rectangular flush bressumer and 7-light mullioned and
transomed casement proud of wallface on brackets, with 3
shaped panels beneath and 2 panels to each side. Small-framed
jettied front gable, shortened finial and replaced
bargeboards. The sides of the first floor above the arcade
have 3 panels beneath a leaded casement. The second bay,
exposed right, is brick and render. The 3-storey third bay has
projecting central chimney on gable to front.
INTERIOR: Jacobean cross-beam. Stone steps to cellar. Doorway
to room behind shop in late C17-early C18 manner, apparently
altered and partly remade, has fluted pilasters and frieze on
consoles. Surfaces in cellar and rear room are covered.

Listing NGR: SJ4094766386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656538

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)