44, FOREGATE STREET
44, FOREGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375799
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 44, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 44, FOREGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375799
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 44, FOREGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 44, 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:
- 44, 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 40863 66361
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 FOREGATE STREET 1932-1/6/103 (South side) No.44
GV II
Formerly known as: The Royal Oak Public House FOREGATE STREET. Town house, later public house, now shop. 1601 largely rebuilt in similar form 1920 by F Davies. Timber frame with plaster panels; grey slate roof; rear probably brick. EXTERIOR: the ground floor has 4 stanchions clad as if posts; late C20 shopfront. The intermediate posts have quadrant brackets carrying bressumer. The first floor has 3 rows of small-frame panels, the top row with quatrefoil braces; left and centre bays each have a canted 5-light oriel on quadrant brackets; the right bay has a mullioned and transomed 3-light casement with pargeted sign "YE OLDE ROYAL OAK HOTEL". The second floor, left and central bays jettied under a gable and right bay flush, has 2 rows of quadrant-braced panels to 2 bays and one row to the third bay; two 3-light canted oriels and a 4-light casement. All upper storey windows are leaded, those to the first floor patterned. The broad jettied front gable has decorated lozenge panels above a pargeted frieze; bargeboards and finial; the jetty beam is inscribed "1601 AD : REBUILT 1920 AD". Chimney right; a chimney behind ridge of front gable. The exposed left end has modern shop window; the close-studded first and second floors are unpierced. INTERIOR of the ground floor has all features removed or covered. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 165).
Listing NGR: SJ4086366361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469778
- 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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