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NUMBERS 90-98 STREET

NUMBERS 90-98 STREET, 90-98, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376361
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 90-98 STREET
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 90-98 STREET, 90-98, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376361
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 90-98 STREET
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 90-98 STREET, 90-98, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 90-98 STREET, 90-98, NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40463 66566

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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/1/321 (East side) 10/01/72 Nos.90-98 (even) Street (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET Nos.90 AND 92) (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET Nos.94 AND 96) (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET No.98)

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Probably designed as 2 town houses and shops, now 3 shops and offices. Mid C18. The frontage of Nos 90 & 92 is expressed as one town house, Nos 94 & 96 as the other; the exteriors of the 2 are described separately, but the interiors overlap. EXTERIOR: Nos 90 & 92 are of brown brick, in Flemish bond to the front and south and English garden wall bond to the rear; the sandstone wing wall to Little Abbey Gateway (qv) forms the lower part of the rear wall of No.90 and probably the plinth to its south end; grey slate roofs with main ridges parallel with the street. 3 storeys. The shopfront to No.90 is probably inter-war with recessed quadrant pane to the south-west corner, central recessed doorway a pattern of panels above the shop windows and panelled end-pilasters. The door to No.92 has 6 panels with an overlight having a central circle and saltire bars; boarded fascia. The south-west corner of the upper storeys has painted stone quoins, the stretcher side of each stone being flush and the header face projecting. Each upper storey has 2 flush 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and gauged brick heads with keystones. The south end has a similar window to the second storey and an opening blocked in brick to the third storey. A band of one projecting course, one recessed course and 2 successively projecting courses beneath a 12-course parapet with moulded stone cornice; stone quoins to the north end of the parapet. Nos 94 & 96, a little lower than Nos 90 & 92, are expressed as one wide-fronted 3-storey town house, with 2 later shopfronts. The early C20 shopfront to No.94 has a stone plinth, a recessed door with a large glass panel above 2 shaped panels, pilasters and a blind-box. The shopfront to No.96 is of no interest. Brick end pilasters to the upper storeys. The second storey has 3 flush 12-pane sashes with painted stone sills and

keys to gauged brick heads, the central one smaller and with a higher sill. The third storey has four 12-pane sashes similar to the sash to the second storey. A band of 2 separated brick courses with a flashed oversailing course at the base of a 10-course parapet with a plain stone coping; coped north gable with a ridge chimney. The rear to No.90 is blank. No.92 has a 2-and-a-half storey canted rear bay with a former basement doorway now a 2-pane window with a rendered apron, a tripartite sash of 4;12;4 panes to each of the first and second storeys under a lean-to roof and to the third storey in the gable above. No.94, in the recess between the canted bay of No.92 and the rear wing of No.96, has a door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels, a flush sash of 12 panes to the second storey and a 9-pane sash to the third storey. The gabled rear wing to No.96 has a 16-pane recessed sash to the first storey and to the second storey and a 9-pane sash to the third storey, all with stone sills and segmental brick heads; in the south side a 3-pane basement window, a bricked-up opening to the first storey and a recessed 9-pane sash to the third storey; 2 small inserted windows in the north side. Only the third storey is visible north of the rear wing, with a flush 12-pane sash. INTERIOR: the basement is largely C18. 3 stone steps within the hall. The room behind the entrance has 3 moulded plaster-faced beams and a cornice; a door of 6 fielded panels to the rear north room; a plain 6-panel door; stair in closed well to second storey; the second storey front south room has an altered door in a case with heavy architrave, part of a moulded cornice, a stone fireplace and a cast-iron safe, probably late C19; panelled case to 6-panel door to rear room. A rear room has a 6-panel door, cornice and a marble fireplace with mantel on slender Roman Doric pillars; cupboard with architrave to door of 6 fielded panels; rail to landing has turned newels and column-on-vase balusters. The stair to the third storey has closed string, newel with turned central portion, 2 turned balusters with square plinths and caps. Doors of rooms on the third storey which were unoccupied and could not be inspected have 4 fielded panels. The attic stair is similar to that to the third storey, but with square newels. Parts of the interior could not be inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4046366566

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.