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Latitude: 53.1914 / 53°11'28"N
Longitude: -2.8867 / 2°53'12"W
OS Eastings: 340851
OS Northings: 366398
OS Grid: SJ408663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2TJH
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M1LR
Plus Code: 9C5V54R7+G8
Entry Name: 47 and 49, Foregate Street
Listing Date: 23 May 1967
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375800
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469779
ID on this website: 101375800
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
SJ4066
1932-1/6/113
23/05/67
CHESTER CITY (EM)
FOREGATE STREET
(North side)
Nos.47 AND 49
(Formerly Listed as: FOREGATE STREET Nos.47 AND 49 Old Nag's Head Inn)
II
GV
Town house, later hotel, now shop and ancillary accommodation.
1597, rebuilt approximately in original form 1914 for Peter
Walker and Sons Brewery, restored and converted to part of
shop premises c1980. Timber frame with plaster panels; steel
framing; Westmorland green slate roof, ridge parallel with
street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays, almost symmetrical. Triple modern
doors just left of centre; polished granite plinth, carried up
beneath each post; 2 narrow 2-pane windows and a modern
secondary door left of entrance; 4 similar windows right of
entrance. End-posts and post between each opening have Ionic
reverse-taper pilasters having herms with varied expressions,
carrying corbels. Jettied first floor has quadrant-braced
small-framing, a central mullioned and transomed 3-light
casement and a canted 5-light mullioned and transomed oriel on
3 ornate consoles to each side. The second floor has a central
2-light casement above 2 arch-braced panels; a tripartite
1;2;1 light casement and herringbone struts in jettied gable
on 2 herms, to each side; all windows are leaded. A
wrought-iron sign-bracket over doorway. The tiebeam to left
gable is inscribed "BUILT 1597 AD"; the right gable tiebeam is
inscribed "REBUILT 1914 AD". Bargeboards and drop finials. A
lavishly detailed tall brick chimney on ridge, right of
centre.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ 40851 66398
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