4-10, CITY ROAD
4-10, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375748
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 4-10, CITY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 4-10, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375748
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 4-10, CITY ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4-10, CITY ROAD
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.
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:
- 4-10, CITY ROAD
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 41188 66520
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 CITY ROAD 1932-1/6/48 (East side) 24/09/90 Nos.4-10 (Even)
GV II
4 shops with living accommodation over, now shops and office. By TM Lockwood. Buff sandstone, timber framing with plaster panels and hard red brick; red-brown clay tile roof with 4 front gables before main ridge parallel with City Road. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Ashlar piers at each end and between shopfronts; wrought-iron gates to entrances of Nos 2 and 6; recessed entrances with canted 1-pane side windows, that to No.8 altered; 1-pane windows to fronts of shops and office. A painted timber console before the head of each pier supports the jettied second storey which has a moulded fascia to the bressumer carved where carried round the bases of 4 mullioned and transomed 4-light oriels with leaded glazing and shaped panes; the oriels to Nos 2 and 8 are canted, those to Nos 4 and 6 are bowed; above transom level glazing is carried through between the oriels across the heads of close-studded framing; the moulded cornice is carved above the oriels. The third storey is jettied on consoles; a row of small-framed panels with alternating shaped and herringbone bracing; a 5-light casement, with leaded glazing and shaped panes, in each gable, those to Nos 2 and 8 having canted side lights and those to Nos 4 and 6 having their 3 central lights bowed; 2 small-framed panels to each side of each casement and jettied collars on consoles above, those to Nos 6 and 4 inscribed "AD:1900"; herringbone struts, those to Nos 4 and 6 in S-shaped curves; rainwater head between Nos 6 and 8 carved as a face; moulded bargeboards; drop-finials with castellated heads; a stone-dressed brick chimney on each end-gable and 2 on the ridge. The south end of No.2 has timber framing returned to the gable-chimney and brickwork behind it; the north end of No.8, formerly built against, is rendered. The rear has no features of special interest. The front is one of the most satisfying of TM Lockwood's half-timbered designs. INTERIORS not inspected. The upper storeys of all properties and the first storey of Nos 4 & 6 vacant in July 1990 when inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4118866520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469727
- 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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