Steam Mill Public House and Offices
STEAM MILL PUBLIC HOUSE AND OFFICES, CANAL SIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375732
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Steam Mill Public House and Offices
- Statutory Address:
- STEAM MILL PUBLIC HOUSE AND OFFICES, CANAL SIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375732
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Steam Mill Public House and Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEAM MILL PUBLIC HOUSE AND OFFICES, CANAL SIDE
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STEAM MILL PUBLIC HOUSE AND OFFICES, CANAL SIDE
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 41302 66610
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 CANAL SIDE 1932-1/6/28 (South side) 01/07/85 Steam Mill Public House and Offices (Formerly Listed as: CANAL SIDE Milns Seed Warehouse)
GV II
Warehouse. 1834 post-fire rebuilding with later C19 reworking and C20 additions. English bond brick, stone sills with Welsh slate roofs. PLAN/EXTERIOR: rectangular site with complex massing of storage structures culminating in substantial central silo with Romanesque-style detailing: blind 4-bay brick banded with Lombard banded north and south facades, and prominent eastern flat-topped rectangular tower with STEAM MILL formerly MILNS SEEDS, painted above 3-bay blind, recessed, pilastered brickwork to east and west; 2 eastern bays to north and south. Apex has corbelled machicolation. Canal Side facade has central 5-bay, 5-storey gable end block with 5-light round-headed apex window. Ground floor has entrances in bays 1 and 4 and blocked windows. Bays 1 and 2 altered; bays 3-5 and stories 2-5 a giant order of 12-pane windows set in recessed round-headed surface divided at each bay by pilasters and horizontally at 3rd and 4th storey by a horizontal brick continuous course. Loading bay 1st floor, 3rd bay. Attached to later 3 bay, 5-storey gable end to west with central loading bays now blocked. 5th floor only has fenestration in recessed round-headed brickwork above continuous string course separated by pilasters below 3-light round-headed apex window. 12-bay 6 storey return to Steam Mill Street. Chapel Street facade blocked to third storey by later addition of no special interest. Central gable end of 3-bays with 5-light round-headed apex window identical to canal elevation. Attached later western gable of 2 bays with 4-light apex window also identical. All the pilasters to Chapel Street and Canal Side elevations terminate in plain stone chamfered strips above course of brick billet. Savill Street elevation has 4-bay return of central gable with lower stories obscured by C20 addition of no special interest. At right angles to street line is 3-bay 3-storey late C19 addition, with C20 top storey, adjacent to late C19 rectangular 2-storey building with a hipped roof and decorative brick-work frieze. Savill Street facade of 2 bays
with entrance in 2nd bay. Canal side elevation of 3 bays with central 1st floor loading bay. All first-floor fenestrations 3-light 30-paned round-headed stone silled windows beneath round brick relieving arches. The window heads linked by continuous band of decorative dentilled brickwork. INTERIOR not inspected. The interior was notable for a blown-air seed-transport system upward, and a gravity system downward, removed on conversion of warehouse to offices. Equipment was photographed by RCHM.
Listing NGR: SJ4130266610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469711
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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