Old Bank Buildings
OLD BANK BUILDINGS, 2, 4 AND 6, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375795
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bank Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BANK BUILDINGS, 2, 4 AND 6, FOREGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375795
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bank Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BANK BUILDINGS, 2, 4 AND 6, FOREGATE STREET
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:
- OLD BANK BUILDINGS, 2, 4 AND 6, FOREGATE STREET
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 40727 66332
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/100 (South side) 10/01/72 Nos.2, 4 AND 6 Old Bank Buildings
GV II
Shops and offices. 1895. By TM Lockwood. Timber-framed to front and to City Walls, white glazed brick to light-well and rear; brown tile roof. EXTERIOR: cellars and 3 storeys; 2 bays, narrower covered entrance bay and one bay. Arcaded ground floor has end-post left, intermediate posts and timber bracket to Eastgate, right. The posts probably conceal stanchions; plinths and capitals with vase-balusters to front and brackets to bressumer. 2 modern shopfronts left of basket-arched entry, one shopfront to right. Shallow first-floor jetty has running vine carved on fascia. The first floor is close-studded; three 6-light mullioned and transomed windows, the central 4 lights of each forming a bowed or canted oriel on carved brackets, 2 in the form of dragons. The close-studded second floor has bold jetty on 6 dragon-brackets; 2 mullioned and transomed oriels, left and centre, with broad central lights round-topped; right bay has composite casement in form of a cross-window to each side of a Palladian window; all glazing is leaded. The 2 left bays have close-studded front gables; eaves have exposed rafters to entrance bay and right bay. The left end of the arcade is open, with the storeys above close-studded; the corner turret is timber-framed with a copper cupola roof (a common feature of Lockwood's designs) with tall finial. The right end of the City Walls has a stone-dressed flush plinth of hard red brick, small framing to the gable-ends against the Wall, 2 stone-dressed shaped brick chimneys, rainwater pipe and head. Behind the gables a square light-well of white brick has leaded mullioned and mullioned and transomed windows; a tall square chimney at back left corner; close-studded second floor; close-studded gable to wing behind light-well; a lower close-studded wing extends to the Wall, with a 15-panel basket-arched oak door. A 2-storey wing of brick to rear has hipped roof; 3 stone-dressed chimneys towards rear. INTERIOR: generally simply finished, but has a broad open-well stair with ornate cast-iron balustrade to first floor and simpler expression above. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 165).
Listing NGR: SJ4072766332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469774
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 165
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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