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Latitude: 53.1909 / 53°11'27"N
Longitude: -2.8913 / 2°53'28"W
OS Eastings: 340542
OS Northings: 366353
OS Grid: SJ405663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2S7M
Mapcode Global: WH88F.K2D2
Plus Code: 9C5V54R5+9F
Entry Name: Numbers 18 and 20 Street Chester House
Listing Date: 28 September 1993
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376342
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470337
ID on this website: 101376342
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 Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
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CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/309 (East side)
28/09/93 Nos.18 & 20 Street (Chester House)
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHGATE STREET
Nos.18 AND 20
Chester House)
GV II
Gas showroom on site of medieval undercroft and town house.
Rebuilt 1936 for the Chester United Gas Company. Probably
steel-framed but expressed as a timber frame with plaster
panels; purple slate roof with gable to street.
3 storeys plus attic. The modern shopfront is set back in an
opening with massive end stanchions in timber cases on
stone-clad battered plinths. Arched braces to a bressumer with
a barleysugar arris-mould; rectangular small-framing to upper
storeys and attic gable. Square 8-light mullioned and
transomed leaded oriel to second storey, with carved base and
crown, on 7 shaped brackets; jetty to third storey on
consoles; bressumer carved CHESTER HOUSE; a 6-light leaded
casement stands proud of the wall above 6 slightly coved
panels; tie-beam inscribed REBUILT 1936 A.D. The attic has a
2-light leaded casement; plain bargeboards and finial of oak;
all windows have metal sub-frames.
Listing NGR: SJ4055466357
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