Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET
1932-1/6/103 (South side)
No.44

GV II

Formerly known as: The Royal Oak Public House FOREGATE STREET.

Town house, later public house, now shop. 1601 largely rebuilt
in similar form 1920 by F Davies. Timber frame with plaster
panels; grey slate roof; rear probably brick.
EXTERIOR: the ground floor has 4 stanchions clad as if posts;
late C20 shopfront. The intermediate posts have quadrant
brackets carrying bressumer. The first floor has 3 rows of
small-frame panels, the top row with quatrefoil braces; left
and centre bays each have a canted 5-light oriel on quadrant
brackets; the right bay has a mullioned and transomed 3-light
casement with pargeted sign "YE OLDE ROYAL OAK HOTEL". The
second floor, left and central bays jettied under a gable and
right bay flush, has 2 rows of quadrant-braced panels to 2
bays and one row to the third bay; two 3-light canted oriels
and a 4-light casement. All upper storey windows are leaded,
those to the first floor patterned. The broad jettied front
gable has decorated lozenge panels above a pargeted frieze;
bargeboards and finial; the jetty beam is inscribed "1601 AD :
REBUILT 1920 AD". Chimney right; a chimney behind ridge of
front gable. The exposed left end has modern shop window; the
close-studded first and second floors are unpierced.
INTERIOR of the ground floor has all features removed or
covered.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 165).

Listing NGR: SJ4086366361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656536

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