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COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY

COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY, ST PETERS CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376388
Date first listed:: 17-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY
Statutory Address:: COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY, ST PETERS CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376388
Date first listed:: 17-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY
Statutory Address 1:: COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY, ST PETERS CHURCHYARD

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:: COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND ATTACHED WALL AND ST PETERS FINE ART GALLERY, ST PETERS CHURCHYARD

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:: SJ4050266314

Details

SJ4066SE 595-1/4/347 18/08/71

CHESTER CITY (IM) ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD Commercial Hotel & attached wall & St Peter's Fine Art Gallery (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) The Commercial Hotel & building adjoining to S of hotel) II GV

Hotel and art gallery. c1807. Brown brick in Flemish bond to front and part of south wing; grey slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical double-fronted main block. Painted sandstone plinth; recessed door of 6 flush panels with simple overlight in painted stone case with moulded architrave, frieze and cornice; flat gauged brick arches and painted stone sills to recessed sashes, one of 12 panes to each side of door, 3 of 15 panes to second storey and 3 of 12 panes to third storey; cornice; flush chimney at each end of main block; cast-iron rainwater head and pipe at north end of the front; the south west corner of the main block roof is hipped, all other roofs are gabled. The south end of the main block has a door of 4 glazed panels above 2 flush panels; each upper storey has a recessed 12-pane sash with gauged-brick flat arch and painted stone sill; lead rainwater head and upper part of pipe at south-west corner. The high brick wall attached to the north-east corner of the hotel links it to the City Club, No.1 Northgate Street (qv), closing the north end of St Peter's Churchyard. A recessed south wing, the first storey occupied by an art gallery, is early C19 with a later recessed extension; the earlier part perhaps of 2 builds is brown brick in Flemish bond; the later part painted stretcher bond; the windows have painted stone sills, some replaced in wood, and cambered brick heads; the first storey has a replaced flush tripartite 2;2;2 pane horned sash, a replaced 6-panel door in a probably replaced doorcase with frieze and cornice and a full-width bay window of three rows of 9 panes, abutting the older part north and with a quadrant south end, a panelled painted plaster plinth, a medallion cornice and a flat roof; the second storey has a brick band of one projecting course above a brick-on-edge course laid diagonally, a nearly flush 4;12;4 pane tripartite sash and a 12-pane sash; the third storey has a 9-pane sash, a tripartite 3;9;3 pane sash and a 12 pane sash which projects above the eaves; cast-iron rainwater pipes.

The rear has a part-glazed framed and boarded door in a plain wooden case with a replaced window to each side; the first storey of the projecting south wing is concealed; the second storey has an altered tripartite sash, north, two 12-pane sashes and a small inserted 2-pane sash, plus a nearly flush 12-pane sash in the south wing; the third storey has two 9-pane sashes, a small inserted window, a 9-pane sash, a small inserted window and, in the south wing, a nearly flush 12-pane sash. INTERIOR: retains the domestic plan of an early C19 public house. (History of the City Club, Chester: Chester: 1800-).

Listing NGR: SJ 40502 66314

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Legacy System number:: 470383
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.